Home

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

Sandra Darling xoxo

Home is where the House is

A Door to Adore

Window to the Soul

The Swing of Things

Home.

We spend all our life growing up trying to leave home and then spend the rest of our lives trying to get back to it.

Growing up on the coast of Queensland I had the best of both worlds. The coastline with beaches, oceans and islands and then the lush tropical sun kissed landscape of the North. It is the things your childhood dreams are made of.

A good part of my childhood was spent holidaying and travelling with my family up and down the coast of Queensland visiting family and forming an attachment to what made a house a home. I remember as much as I was excited with my adventures and in particular visiting other people’s homes and the wonderment of being in the old homes of my grandparents, aunts and uncles, that I was also so pleased to come home to that place of familiarity and comfort. Therefore, many of my vivid memories are in and around the home and places of ‘home’. Old Queenslanders with their distinct and unique tin and timber structures high on stilts designed for coolness (as well as to accommodate the rise and fall of localised flooding) is prevalent in my memory of connectedness to “home”, as to is my connection and memories of play be it in the backyard, or surrounding countryside and coastline.

The ache for our place, our ‘home’, lives within all of us, irrespective of where that place may be. This series of images explore this, as well as reflection on the in-between transitions throughout our lives, journeys to new places and stages of our life where we reflect on our longing and memory of our home, the safe place where we can go, as we are, and not be questioned. Our place of peace and sanctuary.

1.
Title Home is where the House is.
Medium Limited Edition Archival Giclee Photographic Fine Art Print (Archival Inks, Archival Hahnemuhle Pearl Rag Paper)
Height 25
Width 18.7
Unframed Price 50.00

2.
Title A Door to Adore.
Medium Limited Edition Archival Giclee Photographic Fine Art Print (Archival Inks, Archival Hahnemuhle Pearl Rag Paper)
Height 25
Width 18.7
Unframed Price 50.00

3.
Title Window to the Soul.
Medium Limited Edition Archival Giclee Photographic Fine Art Print (Archival Inks, Archival Hahnemuhle Pearl Rag Paper)
Height 25
Width 18.7
Unframed Price 50.00

4.
Title The Swing of Things.
Medium Limited Edition Archival Giclee Photographic Fine Art Print (Archival Inks, Archival Hahnemuhle Pearl Rag Paper)
Height 25
Width 18.7
Unframed Price 50.00