Patricia Ramos
Home, In-betweenness, and Making-do
For a migrant child, the act of moving from your country of origin to a new, unfamiliar country shifts the concept of home; it becomes untethered from its original location, and at the same time takes on a new sense of adventure or possibility. Home could be any place you imagine.
This research project explores childhood memories of home and the imaginative idealisation as a means of making sense of the experience as someone of the 1.5 generation. Additionally, this project employs a make-do aesthetic which echoes the innovative and pragmatic sensibilities in Filipino culture which generate structures of gathered materials and construction to enable the quick and portable creation of ideas of home.
Accompanying these drawings and structures is an audio track which plays in the background of the artist speaking in Tagalog and English. The hybridity of the languages spoken shows the constant changes of home and the spaces that are occupied.
