Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art
Lena Lee
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Home is a Place in my Mind
Relying on the vast landscape of imagination to let the spaces I know expand, life grows through things that were cemented, as does the kindness of my homeland.
I have become increasingly aware of how tumultuous life can be; through that, I discovered where I seek solace. Comfort to me is a combination of nature and home, both of which I build upon in my mind. This has become a place/a version of home that only exists in my mind.
I wanted to bring that inner home to life, for it to be a real place that people can visit, to offer a place of solitude and peace, and to create a spacious moment.
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I give you foxgloves and daisies, forgetmenots, buttercups, wild orchids, and cosmos, lilacs, bluebells, roses, and meadowsweet, evergreen, marigold, and snowdrops, wallflowers, dandelions, and centauries.
How do you greet a friend that you haven’t seen in so long?
Apologise for being gone? For being wrong?
The current pulled me under,
I was so taken by the wonder
I stirred up things that clouded water and mind
They told me there was a treasure to find
Forlorn in the greatest of places
I folded and left without any traces.
Why join the endless hunt for gold?
When there’s something more magnificent to behold?
Say, is home a place to inhabit? to find?
To settle in and leave behind?
A person you love?
An ideal you dream of?
Then how could it be?
that I inhabit only my body,
the place I will always be.
So unlock the feeling
I’m not a mechanical being.
People talk about healing a lot.
I need her more than I thought.
Resurface like a seal would do
out of the blue.
Life full of colour, if you will,
Spring up like a daffodil.
Fall though the window like the sun.
Walk though the door like so many times before,
and if you wish, stay forevermore.
