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.
This project was especially difficult for me creatively. InDesign was easy to learn and use, but I took the longest time deciding what I wanted to make this project about. I bounced from idea to idea, designing maybe one page before moving on to a different focus. This project not only taught me how to use InDesign to affectively arrange my work, but how to latch on to an idea and just make it work.
Jacob Haley 