The Nature of Home
Home is not a place but an idea and a feeling, which mix together to form a compass within each of us. It says "Come here."
Home is many things at many times, because what makes us feel whole will change throughout our lives, sometimes many times in a short period of time, sometimes only once every few years. It is all the words we've ever written, that are not home now, but once were. It's the place where we can welcome people who love us, people we love. It is inhabited by so many people that are not there all the time; so many memories and feelings.
It can be the place where you're most needed, or most wanted, or loved. It is that place where our hearts are happily devoured. It is refuge, it is shelter. It's your heart in another body. It is where your words and your silences are born. There is always a fire that feeds everything at home, and it's a fire that you lit (if it wasn't you, it will eventually go out).
Sometimes home is somewhere else, but sometimes it is exactly where you are, only needing something to change for you to "arrive". Our inner compass may pull us strongly towards some physical destination, and/or towards some idyllic notion which may or may not be very well-defined. (After all, when you're lost, by definition, you don't know where you are or which way you need to go - and you can be just a little lost, or completely lost).
But when home is in sight, you just know it. Every sense you have agrees with every other. And when you reach it, the idea/feeling becomes real, and your compass says "You are here." and disappears... until the next time it is needed.
Alejandra Her is an artist based in Caracas, Venezuela. Her art focuses on the exploration of internal and external worlds, carrying out a simultaneous process of literary and graphic creation.
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