home

What is home? What is place? At the moment, I live and reside in Anchorage; we have the house, the dog and a work place, our social activities, so I consider myself a resident of Alaska. But, I get peeved when people ask me if I am Alaskan. Actually, I don't like to be pegged as any one thing. Yes and no, I respond. My background involves lots of pieces that have made me into what I am today. Friday, I am leaving for the East Coast to see family and New York. I consider that my home too because I instantly immerse myself into a world that knows me; the girlfriend since eight grade, the boardwalk with a vast horizon of the Atlantic and it's aromas, a mother, a sister and brothers, the stoop, and a neighborhood with the same neighbor who lives across the street. I grew up there.

(Well, of course, of course, everyone comes from some place! And why make such a big deal out it all! Lighten up Katherine I keep reminding myself. And on the other hand, we are all good at keeping it together on the surface level. Many times I get tired of the regular protocol banter. La, la, la.)

Soon after college I left my home state and spent twenty years in Los Angeles where I found my career ambition and a community of like minded people; I grew up as an artist on the West Coast and that too is my home. I miss being there, I get sentimental and nostalgic for places and familiar haunts.

Place and home is a natural consciousness; absorbing and learning what is around you. I would like to think of my home as planetary and a universal venture in nature. At the moment, I am here in the physical but continue to expand collectively; I open myself up to multiple possibilities, so my theory of home does not become a fixed place but a evolutionary process of time and flight into the unknown. And, I find that exciting and worth talking about!