Home is where I am - Art CardsThe art project 'Home is where I am' stems from the rich values of nature and heritage in The Avian Kingdom, Sweden. We who live here, are the caretakers for the future of the area. To be able to pass it on to future gene-rations, in its current greatness, we need to connect to it, make it our worldly home and something worth caring for. So how to describe the values in the word 'home'?

In the art project 'Home is where I am' both international artists at ARNA's artist in resi-dency and local children living in The Avian Kingdom have explored the different mean-ings of the word 'home'. As travels, distances and dislocations helps us understand what home really means to us personally, ARNA also invited artists in our international network to participate.

This booklet present the 22 artists from five continents that participated in 'Home is where Iam', by sending their art works to ARNA as postcards. These Art Cards describe artist's ideas, memories and thoughts about home.

The art project showed that 'home' is as much about a physical 'place' as about relations between people.

We also got the insight that ARNA after five years of practice has become much more than a creative place with a residency. It is a home. To ARNA comes artists from around the world to explore culture's role in sustainability, and around the kitchen table they also find new friends. So we have put up a sign for the door to the residency, it says – Welcome HOME.

Kerstin Jakobsson Director / ARNA

Amy Anderson & Courtney ThompsonU.S.A

Anna GlynnAustralia

Carlos NavarreteChile

Deedra LudwigU.S.A

Delphine Saurat & Christian ChovinSouth Korea, France

Eimi Tagore Erwin & TJ PerrinU.S.A, Sweden, Japan

Gunjan KumarIndia, U.S.A

Helga EiblAustria

Hyunju ChungSouth Korea, Germany

Jenny SchaeferGermany

Ji-ii Choi & Youme WonSouth Korea, Germany

Julie Forster & Ji-ii ChoiAustralia, South Korea

Malak MirabzadehIran

Marianne Pon-LayusCanada

Marsha McDonaldU.S.A

Mi-jin Chun & Ji-ii ChoiItaly, South Korea

Nancy HartU.S.A

Putri FidhiniIndonesia

Raymonde JodoinCanada

Roya DelkhoshIran

Song Yee HanSouth Korea, France

Namhee YangSouth Korea

After work music at ARNA's artist in residency

Welcome Home!

Welcome home, wandering soul - Welcome home!

Your heart don't need to have a hole - Welcome home!

We love you because of what you are, a flower, a rock, a shimmering star! Nothing matters to us, nothing is of weight, except that we see you with love and not hate.

Welcome home dear wandering child you no longer have to roam the wild. Welcome home.

Written by Laura, in the Avian Kingdom, 2015

'Home is where I am'The Avian Kingdom, 2016

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