The installation considers the emotional meaning of home in an age of increasingly transient living. There is a variety of perceptions of what home really is today and the question ‘Where are you from?’ prompts myriad answers. The meaning of home for a person may simply be a smartphone with a full memory. Or it may be something more fundamental to our sense of self. housEmotion” looks like a house, but is it a home?
Created using a series of white rods, a simple border demarcating the limits of the home. The gaps between the rods lend a semi-transparency to the structure, drawing visitors in but also allowing the home to dissolve into the wider environment. The walls, perhaps even the home itself, are seen to be illusory.
Once visitors step inside the structure, it again takes on the homely role of a shelter. A divan is placed in the heart of the space, which as being “like a mother’s lap”. It is a place where visitors spend time, relax and meet new people. At night, lights embedded in the rods turn the structure into a glowing lantern, or perhaps a warm hearth. And inspirational for capturing Instagram selfies.