My thesis body of work is centered around the concept of the loss of home. Throughout life, one inevitably leaves people and places behind, often not willingly. For me, it was the loss of my childhood home and "the motherland".

 

   When a Soviet dictator dies, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet is looped on all channels of the television. This garment rack wistfully waits to be used, with costumes not quite made and swans not quite dancing.