Home is where the hearth is

Home is where the hearth is, comments on domestic violence and the loss of a sense of security. The heater is not a found object, but made from pieces of sheet metal, found at various residential areas.

The visible holes in the metal were made from gunfire and attempts to give an honest representation of violence as experienced at these sites. The metal is covered with flower-patterned material and essentially represents the “covering up” of domestic violence as well as the posing threat of a home burning down, such as a curtain or blanket catching fire.

The element of the heater represents a simple pattern of a flower, star or flame, and comments on human ability to experience hope...a transcendental and spiritual entity in the worst of times.