Thoughts on "home"

My drawing project on the theme of Home might start with identifying significant objects in my home, and might include writing about them. Some of the research might involve delving into my memories of childhood home that included favourite places and objects.

Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space might be useful. Here are a couple of quotes:

“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” 
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” 
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Is home where you hang your coat?

To a child, home signals safety and security ... it is a whole world. At any age, home can be a place for repose of the soul.

Is where you hang your bathrobe "home"?

You have the key to the door, the key that lets you in and shuts others out. In combination with the (planned) space beyond the door, the key defines the place that is home.

Memories live in the objects within the home - or do they? Would a photograph, rather than the actual object, hold that same memory?

Often photographs of home include the environment only as incidental to what is happening within it -  celebrations, usually.

A meal at home

Before and after photos show home improvements. When does a home need improving?

A well-stocked pantry and wine cellar make for home security