Artist: Stephen Eastaugh

Headhome [2003]
Found materials
Sculpture Garden, Davis

Photo: Ian Phillips, 2007

Can home be situated in one's head?

As a person who has led

a contemporary nomadic lifestyle

for many years

I certainly hope so.

Internally is where I have stored

my lack of possessions

and often I have luxuriated

in a cosy private time-out place

somewhere behind my eyeballs.

Travel has somehow turned into dwelling

after twenty years of jumping

from place to place.

Home has drastically shrunk:

transformed into a fluid concept

that's easy to move.

Antarctica will be home

for the little sculptures I make

but it cannot be my home.

Stephen Eastaugh, 2002
Australian Antarctic Division website

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