Foreigner Adrift- Traditionally home represented a stable place, a place to leave but also return to. It is a “centre of the one’s physical universe, where one best knows oneself.” Hence this is why the notion of homes is connected with the notion of identity, which in turn is rooted in distinctive national culture. With the ongoing globalisation of the world traditional concepts of home and identity have been shifted.
Houses are one of the most obvious external signs of culture and class; they also represent separation from the people within and what is hidden outside in the darkness.
My photographs are personal encounters with the unfamiliar needs and values of the middle class of the society that I have been living in after I became an immigrant and thus physically detached from my natural place in the world: home. They are visual accounts of the psychological effects of my displacement. They are taken from the view of the immigrant who has always been the “other” of the nation: “The citizen who does not belong”.
Houses are one of the most obvious external signs of culture and class; they also represent separation from the people within and what is hidden outside in the darkness.
My photographs are personal encounters with the unfamiliar needs and values of the middle class of the society that I have been living in after I became an immigrant and thus physically detached from my natural place in the world: home. They are visual accounts of the psychological effects of my displacement. They are taken from the view of the immigrant who has always been the “other” of the nation: “The citizen who does not belong”.
