This project has explored my own behaviour and idiosyncratic relationship with domestic space, domestic objects and the notion of home.


Walking into the space, my partner and I are sitting opposite to one another while live drawing each other onto OHP’s. The drawings of ourselves are hung behind us on bedsheets, we are unaware of what the others drawing looks like. Studying each other in detail, we draw fragments of our bodies, faces and movement. This connects us into the minute movements and feeling of the other person. We have roughly a minute to complete a drawing, we are signalled by the boiling of a kettle, popping of a toaster and dinging of a microwave. Once we completed a drawing we lay it down to be examined.

This project has explored my own behaviour and idiosyncratic relationship with domestic space, domestic objects and the notion of home.


Walking into the space, my partner and I are sitting opposite to one another while live drawing each other onto OHP’s. The drawings of ourselves are hung behind us on bedsheets, we are unaware of what the others drawing looks like. Studying each other in detail, we draw fragments of our bodies, faces and movement. This connects us into the minute movements and feeling of the other person. We have roughly a minute to complete a drawing, we are signalled by the boiling of a kettle, popping of a toaster and dinging of a microwave. Once we completed a drawing we lay it down to be examined.

To our right is a window hung up reading ‘I have been interested in the idea of home, and even more so in how domestic spaces, objects and routines reveal parts of our soul’ laying beneath the window is a embroidered tea-towel reading ‘we invite you to move freely, we invite you to leave a piece of your home with us'. 

Behind us is a replica of our bed with our lamp next to it, embroidered onto the bed sheets reads ‘share with us an object, site or ritual that hold the feeling of home’ pens are available for people to leave their responses. Above the bed hangs another sheet, with a time-lapse of us living and sleeping in our bed.

All parts of this test were cathartic for us. Drawing and viewing those drawings of each other allowed us to see the beauty in how we regard one another. The time lapse video was a second chance of capturing intimacy without crossing my partners boundaries.

Opening up the provocation to include other people to show us their home meant there was an energy exchange occurring, it wasn’t just me anymore sharing my home everyone was sharing back.

Within this test Cleo and I simultaneously were vulnerable with each other, with the audience and they were vulnerable with us.

Everybody gave a piece of themselves to this work so freely. By combining domestic object, space, routine and memory we all created a collective understanding of the feeling of home, each different but equally poignant. 
To our right is a window hung up reading ‘I have been interested in the idea of home, and even more so in how domestic spaces, objects and routines reveal parts of our soul’ laying beneath the window is a embroidered tea-towel reading ‘we invite you to move freely, we invite you to leave a piece of your home with us'. 

Behind us is a replica of our bed with our lamp next to it, embroidered onto the bed sheets reads ‘share with us an object, site or ritual that hold the feeling of home’ pens are available for people to leave their responses. Above the bed hangs another sheet, with a time-lapse of us living and sleeping in our bed.

All parts of this test were cathartic for us. Drawing and viewing those drawings of each other allowed us to see the beauty in how we regard one another. The time lapse video was a second chance of capturing intimacy without crossing my partners boundaries.

Opening up the provocation to include other people to show us their home meant there was an energy exchange occurring, it wasn’t just me anymore sharing my home everyone was sharing back.

Within this test Cleo and I simultaneously were vulnerable with each other, with the audience and they were vulnerable with us.

Everybody gave a piece of themselves to this work so freely. By combining domestic object, space, routine and memory we all created a collective understanding of the feeling of home, each different but equally poignant. 

Performance / Immersive Work

Date:
2022