Elizabeth Alexander

Places of Habit

Calarts
May 2009
Photography

Process

For my Photography for designers course, we were asked to think about what defines Home. At this point in my life, I didn't feel as if I had one place that I thought of as home. Which got me thinking, what exactly describes home? How we define what home is to us?

I ultimately decided that home to me was where I developed habits, where I felt comfortable enough that I could recognized and reach for things without even looking for them, where I touched things the most, et cetera. This meant that I had three places of habit, 3 places I thought of as home.

In each of these places (numbered 1-3, 2 photographs each), I found where I touched most often, places that I developed my habits.

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