home:away | travel diptychs

“it was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt [at home] in Japan. and not such a bad feeling, he decided. being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. in other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. there was nothing odd about it at all. the thought calmed him. he was in exactly the right place. “

-haruki murakami, colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage

home:away are a series of diptychs created in places i visit. i am often away from home and traveling.i think that travel, in many ways, is just another search for home, for belonging. these images are my way of figuring out that search.