No Place Like Home takes inspiration from Dorothy Gale’s exclamation, “Oh, Aunty Em, there’s no place like home!”, upon returning from her adventure through Oz.

Dorothy realizes that the lure of magic and adventure in faraway wonderlands can never replace the comfort and familiarity of home.

However, this series explores how home itself can become a fantasy, specifically, the memory of home and what happens when the feeling of belonging shifts.

Photographed in an imaginary doll’s house, the setting becomes a repository for feelings of loss and estrangement: a growing distance from the home of the past and a subsequent disconnection from the self. The fight to hold onto what is slipping away, to cling to a past self, is expressed through the imagined escape back to a childhood doll’s house a space where, as children, we were able to control every aspect of a doll’s environment and surroundings.

However, these miniature domestic settings also served as a tool to instruct young girls on their expected future roles within the household. The two characters in the series enact the battle between fantasy and reality inherent within the doll’s house: a desire to find comfort in the familiar home of the past, while simultaneously recognizing or deliberately ignoring the inevitable futility of such an escape.

This attempt at returning home ultimately reinforces a sense of loss, further displacing the present self from what was once familiar. Home can no longer be returned to, for it no longer exists viewed now through a lens that is no longer rose-tinted. [official website]