If you lived here, you’d be home now.

I desire to keep in my memory the flawed and faded versions of myself through the representation of places I once lived. Some of these homes no longer stand or are completely inaccessible; some of what I once was, once did has also been forgotten.

I am drawn to finding public images of these personal places and then transforming them into something tangible- an invented replacement for a memento that never existed. This act of remembering disturbs me because of my separation from the past, and by the distance between my former homes and me. By assembling these fragments, I piece together the ghostly outlines of an archetypal house to create a semblance of self-knowledge.

Margaret A Miller, March 2019 MFA Thesis