Resin, stone, wood
8 x 8 ft.
Art installation
The Goat Farm Arts Center
The Goat Farm Arts Center
Atlanta, GA
A Place to Call Home was commissioned by Soho House for Atlanta Art Week in 2024. Expanding upon an earlier sculptural work, Form 1.B, the installation examines destruction and creation as interconnected forces through resin, sand, stone, movement, and light.
Translucent sculptural forms are arranged within a landscape of sand and stone. During the opening presentation, two performers demonstrated the work through movement, repositioning the forms to reveal and obstruct light, disturb the surrounding terrain, and create new spatial relationships. Each intervention became an act of both disruption and construction.
Drawing from the artist's childhood experience of displacement following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, the work considers how instability can give rise to new conditions for belonging, transformation, and renewal. Its title reflects both the artist's search for grounding and the possibility of establishing a sense of home in unfamiliar surroundings.
The title A Place to Call Home carries a dual meaning, reflecting both the artist's personal search for grounding and Soho House's philosophy of creating a sense of home wherever one finds oneself. The connection between these ideas extends the work's exploration of displacement, belonging, and the ways we establish a sense of place.