Home?

A short reflection on home, diaspora, exile and belonging.

Locus Suspectus, a new magazine of art and culture, seeks textual and visual proposals for its second issue exploring the notion of "home". Globalization has made it increasingly difficult to conceive of home as a singular and stable location. Moreover, home for many individuals often exists as a constant state of homelessness due to social, economic, and political circumstances. Despite this plurality of meaning, home often carries with it a nostalgic longing for stasis and a pressure and tendency to identify ourselves and others largely in terms of where we live and where we have come from.