What do you think about when you think about home?

I think about my mom's kitchen. I think about the smell of her food, the sound from an old iron pan, and her moving swiftly from one spot to another. 

I also think about the city. The broad boulevard and vehicle noises I was accustomed to, strangers in the subway, crowded cafe, moist and warm air, tall buildings. 

This what home is like to me, it might not be what home is for you. For Nina, it is desert that looks dead and mountains that turn yellow in the spring. While traveling together in Mexico, we both found such specific moments -- wow, this is home!

We came to mediate our experiences in relation to a sense of home, not just for sentimental or nostalgic value, but a subconscious driving force behind our consumption choices, and an anchor from which we move around and perceive the world. At the same time, growing up on different sides of the world and having our visions of home colliding in Mexico was nothing short of an experience itself!

Here is a series of thinking we shared with each other in regard to home and otherness. We choose to do this here in a multimedia form because we believe this best represents the extent of the full sensory experience we had on the ground. Thanks to the anthropological training we had, we have a vocabulary to describe what we are seeing, we also have a different angle and different precision to dissect our experiences. We hope to bring these, as much as we can, to you.

--Coral

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