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This document is an attempt to map and situate my art practice.
My practice currently has 4 trajectories that go parallel to and/or interlacing each other.

These are:
Housing (Crisis), Domestic Labour, Relationship to Land and Ear Bread.

These 4 trajectories function under the larger umbrella of The Meaning and Value of Home.
I spend time looking at this from various perspectives such as personal, city dweller, consumer, artist, feminist, gardener, cook and flaneur.

The urgent questions for me as an artist were outlined in my project proposal, these are:
 
> Where does an art practice sit in relation to the issues of home and housing?
> What role does an artist have in a neighbourhood?
> Where does the personal and the political meet?

This Semester I plan to focus on:

1. Ear Bread research; a revisit of a previous 'Pelmeni/Meet the Grandparents' work through a new lens of Russian Imperial and Soviet history of the Ural Mountains region where I am from.

2. Explore the possibilities of natural materials and their physical properties through workshops at the Natural Materials Lab (Pastoe).

3. Work on expanding my mapping and walking as artistic research methods during walks with Expodium and Nancy.

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