Two Houses, One Thousand Goodnights

I have worked with the concept of home and identity. Home is much more than the four walls that contain it and my concept of home was surprisingly found in two very far away wooden houses – one in the well known Cairns Street Cottages, Kangaroo Point and the other a simple wooden house in Lismore, Northern NSW. The traffic box is positioned on Cairns Street – the same street my Great Grandparents and Grandparents lived in around 1928. The image painted in the traffic box is my other Grandparents house in Lismore, northern NSW. The traffic box is not just an artwork but a physical marker of where my family lived almost one hundred years ago combined with the visual image of my other Grandparents’ house. I have reconnected two houses, two families, 100 years, one thousand good nights. I hope the viewer asks ‘Whose house is this? Why is it significant?’ I would like the viewer to be provoked to think about their own idea of home and identity.