Place has meant home for me, perhaps even a yearning for home — frequent house and
school moves as a child had left me feeling un-homed, out of place. During times of life change, my work as an artist and geographer always seems to come back to this feeling of displacement as a starting point from which to work. Now is one such transitional moment, a moment marked by an upcoming move from Cornwall where, for the first time, I have lived in the same house for more than three years. This house in which I have brought up my family has been our home since 2001; a settling in one place that has been life-affirming. Those who know me well are therefore surprised to hear that I am leaving West Cornwall and moving to a city. Bristol is very different from these remote cliff tops near Lands’ End, four hours further west. A house became a home,
only to now, once again, become a house.
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Vickery, V. (2020), 'Practices of home beyond place attachment's Routledge Handbook on Place, ed Tim Edensor, Una Kothari, Ares Kaladides, pp. 664 - 677.