An ongoing project.
Homeward is a visual diary of analog collages, made from photographs of spaces I’ve inhabited, landscapes and portraits that have special meanings for me. These fragments become the material for exploring the meaning of home in its broadest sense.
Each collage is made using tactile techniques: hand-stitched lines, embroidery, layers of fabric, stickers, writing, and painting with various tools. These experimental methods are a reflection of my mental attempt to hold together what was separate. I incorporate multiple languages – Ukrainian, English, Italian, Estonian, Chinese, Punjabi – to emphasize that home is not confined to a single country or language.
I’ve lived outside of Ukraine for over a decade, and that distance continues to shape how I experience home: as something layered, shifting, and often internal. This project is an attempt to mend what feels fragmented, to weave together self and space into a new meaning.
Homeward is not only a place or a destination, but it is also a state of being, created through memory and belonging. Sometimes, it’s a dot on a map, often – the body, but always – a turning inward.
