Houses and Homes I

This month I had a solo student show open at California State University Long Beach, Maxine Merlino Gallery. I am currently in the Photography BFA program here.

The Difference Between Houses and Homes is an installation study of how we relate to the homes we grew up in and how we adjust to the houses we move into after we leave our childhood home.

The installation featured interviews with people about their experience moving away from home for the first time, a recording station for those who wish to share their own experience, as well as photography comparing the views outside the windows of my childhood home in Fillmore, CA to the first house I lived in when I moved to Long Beach, CA.

The sound recordings from the exhibition are at the bottom of this post.


Listening station




Listening station




Listening station




My mom and me at the opening.




The recording station where visitors could make recordings about their own experience of moving away from home.




I collected the recordings that people made at the recording station and put them onto my laptop. All together fifteen people participated over the five day period that the show was open during.




Photographs on the right were taken out of every window from the home I grew up in, in Fillmore, CA. Photographs on the left were taken out of every window from my house in Long Beach, CA.




Mom, Jose and Pan.



Jeremy, Amelia and Diego.

Below is the audio from interviews I did with people about their experience moving away from their parent's home for the first time.
Dad
Gina
Grandma and Grandpa
Jim
Julie
Mom
Morgan
Pam
Rosangela
Seema


Here are recordings that gallery visitors made themselves about their own experience.
Anon 1
Anon 2
Tracy
Cupcake
Darlene
Hannah
Javier
Jennifer
Jessica
Julie Good