WHERE YOU END AND I BEGIN
Where You End and I Begin
"How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life."
- Katherine Mansfield
In between the places we grew up in and left behind and the place we stand now and look back from, is the horizon. The border between visible and invisible, between air and water, between here, there and what's beyond.
Where you end and I begin explores the notions of home, displacement and the in-between. It explores physical and spiritual borders and the difficulty of crossing both. Inspired by my personal situation of living between two cultures, the work questions the transformative quality of moving away while looking back.
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