The mollusk’s motto would be: one must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
Gaston Bachelard
Leena Nammari is a photographer originally from Palestine, who studied in Dundee, and stayed with us for seven months during 2002.
'Belonging' is to fit in somewhere, to be a part of something, to be correctly placed in a particular context, to be the property of something/somewhere, to be at home. Belonging somewhere provides identity, relief, joy and hope. It is being at home – but what is home? Is it a house? A country? Or somewhere more personal? And what happens to those of us who have an irreparable breech between where we are now, and where we consider home – through unfortunate circumstances or through choice? And, can a sense of belonging simply be lost over time?
