HOMELANDS - Landlines
From HOMELANDS - Landlines, (2023-)
Video, photography and video stills
No Place, Safe-Space Peckham, London + MK Gallery, MK (2024)
From HOMELANDS - Landlines, (2023-)
Video, photography and video stills
No Place, Safe-Space Peckham, London + MK Gallery, MK (2024)
there’s a word, ‘anemoia’ - nostalgia for a time you’ve never known, except i experienced it through a knowing and feeling of a place and space and time, through long distance phone calls, oral storytelling, song, my genetic code, my bloodline, my bones, my Being.
the sheer scale of mountain giants near Førde, Norway, make me timid yet feel safe, at ‘home’, aware of the magnitude and miniscule. In a strange way, similar to how i would feel in the countryside in St Vincent and the Grenadines, the main islands volcano, La Soufrière, (still active as we saw in 2020) where clouds hugged the peak but this tremendous landscape was sometimes visible from the lush land where i’d walk my sheep Hamish daily, close to home.
For me, home is always nature. The place which always remembers (there is no stranger). Nature welcomed and still welcomes me as a familiar.
HOMELANDS - Landlines, 2024. projection at Safe House Peckham, London.
🎨 here’s a video interview with MK Calling 2024 artist Dionne Elizabeth (@dionne_______) discusses her work ‘Homelands’ featured in the ‘Third Culture Creatives’ category of the exhibition.
MK Calling 2024 is open now until 29 September.