WHEREVER YOU ARE
“WHEREVER YOU ARE” is part of an ongoing body of text pieces where the subject matter is the meaning and interpretation of images and language. Aphorisms and universal statements with ordinary words represent how we each relate to our world.
I’ve been a professional image maker for 25 years but ‘HOME’ isn’t something that I can now personally summarise in a single picture. I recently moved home, leaving a house that had been in my family for generations. The upheaval alongside huge personal family loss, have led me to think a lot about what home really is and where it is.
Imagery of my home or notions of a ‘home’ fall short. So the work directly talks about the notion of ‘HOME’ through the presence and absence within language.
Home isn’t a specific place but a memory. The work and words are a submission to loss and love.
There are three voices in the text and three meanings.
WHEREVER YOU ARE - WHEREVER you may be or find yourself is your home - wherever you lay your hat.
WHEREVER YOU ARE - Wherever ‘YOU’ are - A message to the people you love most and wherever they are found, is where home is.
WHEREVER YOU ARE(?) - It’s not punctuated, but there is an inherent question in the language that’s asking where are those that I’ve lost, now that they are gone? They are at home, within me and in my memories.
Between all of these places is where home and love resides.
Home is something that we carry with us as a memory.
Home isn’t a place. It is a feeling.
This piece helps us to remember that.
In the words of David Byrne -
“Home, is where I want to be
But I guess I’m already there
I come home, she lifted up her wings
I guess that this must be the place”
