Homefront
2020
steel, charcoal
24" x 30" x 24"
With the future comes uncertainty. "Homefront" explores the hope and fear that comes with a future that is directly tied to an active duty military member. The house itself is modeled after a dream farmhouse that I one day hope to occupy and fix up, it represents an idyllic future I wish to share with my boyfriend. Although all plans are subject to change, this piece is about building a beautiful future that can only be attained by working through a period of anxiety and violence, as the very nature of his job is war. This dream is fragile, and fear and worries threaten to destroy it, while also being an unavoidable obstacle in the journey to achieve the dream itself. "Homefront" is a home, made of unforgiving and cold steel, this house is the shadow of the dream. It is the shell of a dream that could be lost, but also the foundation of what will be. The burnt charcoal words are a stream of consciousness, pouring out every worry and fear onto its walls, facing outward, raw and vulnerable. Nomenclature, words of love, and repetition are the direct embodiments of every anxiety. "Homefront" is an expression of fear, but a fear that is worth the dream itself. Sometimes the things that scare us the most lead us to something beautiful.
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