"Feel It Like Home"
(Photography, 2003-2004)

Home has been one of the most important spaces in the construction of dominant ideology. It signifies the space of the family, which is a significant part of the normalised process of heterosexual ideology. Over the years through people living in diaspora, the homosexual marriage, political and legal decisions, etc. the notion of family has been changing. Homosexuality is no longer a taboo subject in the construction of family but become a necessary element, in some cases, in the condition of contemporary life. The notion of home that has long been negated personal space and personal desire has now been renegotiated and perhaps reluctantly allowed them to co-exist in the space of the family.

This series of photography focuses on the use of artificial lighting in order to provoke the sense of surreality and abstraction in the places in relation to home such as council flat, house, under construction housing as well as towards the identity of the occupier of the space that do not feel the sense of belonging, the corridor, the window frame, the door frame, the stair produce a sense of in-between where public/private, outside/inside boundary no longer provide their usual function but provide a splintering boundary where fantasy and desire can fuse with the reality. The physical and psychological effects from the impact of globalisation, displacement, the increase number of people living in exile can be represented in different variety of forms of representation.

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