No Place
The title of my project, No Place, is taken from the translation of the Greek word “utopia”, ou ‘not’ + topos ‘place.’ No Place is based on interviews and documentation I gather while talking with people who grew-up in utopian societies (communes, intentional communities, eco-villages) or spent a good portion of their lives on them. As the interviewees discuss their experiences in these "ideal worlds", tensions emerge between the founding principles behind the formation of such places and the major challenges that living communally often presents. This tension as well as the concrete imagery from the interviews is the jumping-off point for this series of works.
