About the Exhibit

A Sense of Home in a Foreign Place, emerged from the physical and metaphysical labor of renovating my partner and I’s historic home in the West End of Atlanta. Amid demolition and reconstruction, I was confronted with a revelation: home is not the walls, but the acts of love, resilience, relationships, and rituals that animate them. The exhibit distills the tension between the foreign and the familiar, the anchored and the untethered—through materials that embody both resilience and impermanence. Oil paintings on wood panels and canvas capture the fleeting warmth of belonging. Sculptural assemblages of reclaimed timber and industrial material speak to the labor of building sanctuary in unwelcoming terrain. Found objects, anointed with new meaning, become testaments to the alchemy of adaptation. Here, foreignness is not erased, but sanctified, and what is unfamiliar becomes a site of revelation. 

I invite viewers to reflect on their own landscapes of belonging and sense of self. A participatory wall gathers handwritten definitions of "home," while curated soundscapes amplify the exhibit’s quiet dialogue between dislocation and grace. Here, the foreign is not a void but a threshold—a site where discomfort transforms into discovery, and where the self, stripped of its old shells, learns to dwell anew. By merging the personal and universal, I aim to offer not just an exhibit, but a compass—one that points inward, outward, and always toward the light we carry, no matter where we stand.