Home

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/the-psychology-of-home-why-where-you-live-means-so-much/249800/

• Why home is important to us and how the concept of home is different throughout the world.

• Home as the body, how we own our bodies, how do we navigate “owning” our “home” with other people and in public space.

• The concept of “home” can be other people, how do relationships and connections shape what we define as home and how we live in our home spaces and non-home spaces.

• Family can be representative of home, for mothers, it is the literal home of the fetus, and the relationships and connections throughout life. Do our understandings of “home” through people/family and space differ?

• While students at Bowdoin, we are promised to be at home in all lands, what does that look like? How is that connected to “making home” during our four years at Bowdoin? Brunswick and Bowdoin as “home.”

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1889653?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

• The gendered dynamic of space, ownership, and body. The idea of “separate spheres” between men and women. How does that impact our use of space and sense of ownership? Is this reflected in photographs of men vs. women?

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

• A short story depicting ideas of gender roles/norms in regards to physical space. Our spaces impact us and we impact our spaces.

• Walker’s book explores themes of individuality and independence, I like the idea of how our relationships with ourselves and ownership of our bodies and selves impacts how we move through the world and create relationships with others.

My photography project will explore themes of home, body, ownership, and space. What does it mean to “own” a space? Can we own spaces that are public, spaces that other people utilize as well? My project will look at how as a college student, I have made Bowdoin and Brunswick home and one of the spaces I have claimed ownership over public spaces. How do I see the use of “my” space by other people, strangers/other students/etc.? Can home be a place I don’t own, an object, other people? Do my body and the space it takes up create home and ownership? I want to see how body, space, and home intersect. The image is an interesting medium to explore these themes; can I capture these complex and moving concepts in a single frame or set of frames? In these images I want to see how light and time of day can impact the tone and meaning of the photographs. Thus far I have one space, a specific couch cushion in Little Dog Café, that I want to explore and photograph.