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Stephen Eastaugh, Headhome

Sculpture Garden, Davis, 2003
Photo: J. Smith,
Australian Antarctic Division

When a new party of expeditioners replaces the old, this can challenge one's sense of belonging. Whose home is Antarctica? Where is home? Are these feelings evidence of the deep connections that some have made with Antarctica?

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, Australian Antarctic Division website:
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=10416
Accessed 2008-03-30