CHRIS THURMAN: We keep our home in these photographs
‘What Is Home To You?’ is on display at the Firestation in Rosebank
31 May 2024 - 05:00
Happy is the person who can confidently affirm that the place and time in which they find themselves is, truly, home.
For most of us, home is elsewhere or else-when. This can be nostalgia — the ache for a “home” that is far away or that has receded into the past. It can also be what John Koenig, in his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (which coins new words for phenomena without an existing name) calls anemoia: nostalgia for a place or time that one has never known...
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