The Home Front
In this installation I decided to do a sound based installation of what a home front means to me. Looking back into my past I have realized that a home front would signify more of the memories that have been formed rather than the site-specific stable structure of a house. From moving houses to houses, parents having different housing and as well as moving to my own house, a home front became focused on the memories that have been created from each that forms the concept of “home”.
I created a three-dimensional house made out of fabric that illustrates a different house I have lived in on each of the sides. Each house signifies a different chapter in ones life and the memories that has formed and progressed throughout the houses transformation. The viewer can observe that each side is carefully painted in a way that illustrates like a story. Parts of the houses are painted in section in which fades from colour to fading lines to bold lines. This is specifically done to exemplify the occurring theme of a memory. Memories are never vivid and because of this, each of the houses are painted in “snippets” of the memory that I remember and that would be most significant.
The most important part of this piece is the sound piece I created to trigger the viewer’s own memory. Sound is an extremely important stimulant to a person’s memory. Because of all of our senses are in charge of our memory, the act of hearing snippets of familiar sounds can trigger certain memories. Such as, babies laughter, kitchen noises or adult voices. In my sound piece, I included those basic sounds to help trigger ones memory but I as well used specific recordings of my past to provoke the viewers to submerge themselves to thinking of their own past memories. By also triggering ones memory, this also provokes different emotions that are attached to the memories that have been stimulated.
