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)
(2023–2024) • Moving Image, Photography, Field Recordings, Sound Art & Video Stills
Exhibited at Safe House (Peckham) & MK Gallery (MK Calling 2024, Third Culture Creatives Category)
The Inquiry
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-enough, at ‘home’, aware of the magnitude and miniscule. In a strange way, mirroring to how i would feel in the countryside in St Vincent and the Grenadines, close to the main islands active volcano, La Soufrière, 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.
Practice-Based Research as a Site of Care
This project explores transnational belonging, mapping the emotional and physical landscapes of the global majority, diaspora, and third-cultural identities. By blending moving image, field recordings, and video stills, the work functions as a sensory archive of cross-border and trans-national memory.
Exhibited publicly within a curated framework highlighting diverse cultural perspectives, it bridges institutional exhibition spaces with deeply rooted, bottom-up grassroots storytelling.
🎨 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.