Artist Residency at The Box Plymouth September 2023

Exhibition at The Box March-April 2024

The Making of Home was a twelve-week workshop interview series, exploring themes around the home under the category of Move, Eat, Rest, Clean this allows the participant to respond in many different capacities depending on their individual living experience. Through these workshops research began to address home-making practices through memory, sharing stories of homelands. As a group, we explored Plymouth (UK) through mapping to uncover how we can connect with the city, through culturally relevant shopping trips, sharing places with members of the group meet up, and how they connect to the landscape. The activities not only deepen a sense of well-being and connectivity but can become a touchpoint for members to share their experiences of displacement and begin a form of expression of identity, while grounded and connected in their home countries, lived experiences can be traumatic and isolating in arrival countries. Creative mapping explores the entanglement of domestic spaces of forcibly displacees’.

The Making of Home.

“I remember home the most in the smell mapping session, we had some smells of flowers it reminded me of flower my mother used to take care of, and the medicine especially teas that she would give me.”

— Mosa Najafi

© Observational Photographs taken by FotoNow as project partners, others taken by group members or myself.

Large wall exhibition case.
Exhibition case with Merrydith stood next to the wall dressed in black.
Young man, weaving yarn in a make old window frames.
Two old window frames standing upright, with strips of fabric woven inside, featuring Arabic, Farsi, Ukrainian, and other languages
A strip of white fabric with Arabic writing on it.
Close- up of weaved, with Farsi and English language written on the weave.
Merrydith holding old window frame as man hammers the frame.
Two men stood up using there phones.
Yellow and pink hand-drawn map with Farsi writing surrounding the drawing.
Multicoloured hand-drawn map describing routes around the city.
Multicoloured hand-drawn map depicting door s and cats.
Smell maps with Farsi written to the side, small drawings of plants.
Photo of a man with a red jumper looking a gallery work.
Hand reaching food on plate.
A group of hands placing crisps on top of drawings on fabric.
Blurred image of man walking in city.
Group of people working over a table.
The back of a hand stretched over a drawing of a hand on paper.
Close up of pieces of yarn reach a piece of paper on the floor.
A series of white pieces of paper scattered around connected by yarn.
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