My idea of home has always been very fluid, not really something I was able to define. When I think of home, I do not think of places, I think of an idea. The idea that home can be anywhere I make it, home is where I decide to settle for however long I choose to be there. I think that my computer represents that well. It is something that I can put down and use, but at a moment’s notice I am able to carry away with me, free to pursue my next destination.

I think the looping aspect of the gif, as well as the very similar nature of the two depictions of my computer play into this idea as well. A computer also represents the incorporeal, the unreal, the culmination of human science and technology, and it pleases me a little to have that as an idea of home. The two representations show that my home is a physical place, as well as somewhere that isn’t real, somewhere that exists, but does not at the same time.

In this project I learned quite a bit about my own creative process. The skills I used were all developed through previous projects, but this assignment helped me develop my own process. Because of the way I created this gif, I was required to shoot, reshoot, edit, and reedit the same set of video multiple times to really develop the look I was attempting.