‘Life of the Home’ is a visual narrative of everyday life which explores domestic lives and people in their natural settings. There is a decline in traditional families, and more freedom to choose who we live with and how we live. Moving back in with my parents last year was a change of environment and dynamics which took some time to get used to. Over time, I began to notice the little details I overlooked in the past which made it my home, compared to student living which I could never make homely enough. I also began to notice and appreciate my parents more and create a new bond with them being a young adult, which contrasts to my relationship with them as a child. There is a conflict between comfort and confusion as I grow older with no child influences in the home, which gives me a mixture of melancholy as well as an affectionate view of the present. As Doug Dubois said, “I no longer see my family as an assured source of comfort but as part of the confusion of my adult life. In the conflict between intimacy and detachment. I feel the loss of my childhood family.” (Galassi, 1991, p.22). By photographing in my own home, I am breaking/ ignoring the barrier between work and home. I become the observer of my own family with the aim to document them. Using a mixture of portraits, landscape, and still life, I am creating a narrative of my family. Delicate, caring, intimate, and emotional.
