Home Is Here : A Return TO Source

How do we care for our world if we can’t admit it’s the same one we all share ?

Home is Here: A Return to Source is a culmination of a decade of work exploring the culture of belonging. This nomadic year-long series of site specific installations, performances, and community workshops is simultaneously a process and a product Based on the RED Pearl River. and models personal agency by re-patterning habits of consumption into habits of creative cooperation. A collective opportunity to mourn and celebrate, Home Is Here re-sacralizes and rejuvenates our fragmented mental and physical landscapes of home, by weaving tales of healing, restoration and reconciliation into the public imagination. This pilgrimage, is aligned geographically with the 310 mile length of the St. Johns River and remembers our essential kinship with the natural world, through dialogue and community action and creatively affirms our connection to each Other and the Earth through the gifting of Water.

Illustrating the artist's personal journey to belonging, it fosters intimate dialogue about womens spirituality and indigenous ways of knowing the earth and ourselves. A cry of arms against the commodification of our earth and our bodies the activities of the Home is Here project are aligned with the 100 Anniversary of Amendment 19 and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the equinoxes and Solstice calendar. By honoring the mythopoetic journey of the soul, we remember and reclaim our intimate connection to the Earth and each other.

Funded in part by a matching grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Community First Cares Foundation, The Cultural Council and the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, the Home is Here Project will be popping up in unexpected ways through the watershed of the St. Johns River over the first six months of 2020 culminating in a Gifting of Water at the Source in June 2020.