http://www.flickr.com/photos/yusheng/sets/72157594518737058/

http://listverse.com/2008/03/10/top-10-interesting-abandoned-places/

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/03/san_zhi.php

http://io9.com/5435724/the-grandiose-decay-of-abandoned-detroit/gallery/

http://weburbanist.com/2007/08/30/urban-abandonments-part-two-7-more-deserted-wonders-of-the-modern-world/

For this series I have used appropriated photographs of abandoned houses and furniture from all over the world. I am hoping that these images of actual physical houses and furniture will come to act as a metaphor for issues of home, family, immigration/migration and displacement. As these buildings have been abandoned, I have taken them out of their previous environment, and attempted to reconstruct them into a new landscape, which in my own imagination might show partly what happened to them. These works reminisce of natural disasters, turmoil and things falling apart, which I hope will bring to mind questions such as what does the word home really mean? What makes a home?