On My Way Home is an experimental body of work inspired by and conceived during my 400 miles of weekly commuting between Baton Rouge (home) and Lafayette, LA (work). The concept and artwork further developed during my monthly drives between my homes in Baton Rouge, LA and Birmingham, AL.
These drives provided time to reflect on what home truly means and what it is that makes something, or someone feel like home.
The idea of home is a feeling. It’s something that doesn’t just appear, but is constructed over time. It’s a process; a cycle that has a beginning and end. When someone asks, “what reminds you of home?”, the reply is rarely just the structure of the house; It is often the people, landscape, experiences, food, and places we become fond of that create a sense of familiarity and comfort.
There are markers in the landscape and structures I have come to notice and expect along my usual routes. They are things which remain constant and I am able to observe their changes over time, slight as they may be. The presence of these structures, both manmade and earth-made offer comfort in their seemingly fixed existence. I find parallels in what I observe and our sense of home as it undergoes natural or human inspired metamorphosis. I think of how fields are planted, grow tall, and then are cleared again to start the process over, much like the cycles we experience as we navigate through change and find new spaces to call home along the way.
