The theme of this season is Home. Amina Chouairi shares what Home means to her. Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co
The theme of this season is Home. Amina Chouairi shares what Home means to her.
Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co
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I often ask myself what is home for me? And, uh, it's pretty banal, but it's not only where my loved ones are, uh, but home was vanished before, uh, I moved. Here maybe because of a sort of, uh, like irrational memories that I've built all across my life and the connection that I, that I've built also during my childhood with the city, even though I visited it for the first time when I was 12.
Um, home is many places for me, like geographically speaking is infinite places for me, emotionally speaking. Um, home is also, uh, not a place in the sense, if I think about my relation with my Moroccan roots, which I have never, let's say, uh, properly studied or, uh, discovered. Let's say it happened to me that when I, when I was passing through Morocco was just.
So visiting there, I, I felt there was something more than, uh, just me being there. Like it's also a place that I create in my mind, home, uh, not to escape a place where I'm in, which is not home, uh, but rather because I have different feelings of, uh, comfort, um, that I connect to the world word, the home. So there are like the familiar home.
Yeah, the friend, like home, uh, there are small interiors home, so that's the most direct relation to the architectural mean, mean of home that are homes that are just, uh, spaces in my mind because, um, I don't have nor that feeling. Nor that family, nor that friend close to me anymore. And so the only, uh, connection that I have to, that is the memory that I have of that home.
Uh, so, because even though, for example, like again, I connected with an experience that I have for a short period of time in Paris that was not home. Uh, in the sense that I had, um, I wasn't feeling well there, and it lasted for a very short period of time. Even though time I, I wouldn't connect it with the concept of home.
Um, but,
but yeah, it didn't last. Right? But now, even though I. I had a bad experience related to that months and place. I came back to Paris after, after that experience. And sometimes, you know, we feel like a bit, uh, uh, rejecting places and, uh, emotions that made us feel bad. But I had a quite a, like, I was, I was nostalgic, you know, even though I didn't connect that.
Spot to a beautiful period of my life. Uh, and maybe this is because, uh, while I was living there, uh, in the city were living also two of my closest friends. So even though the specific working experience and life experience was bad, let's say, just to generalize a bit, I was feeling comforted by the fact that, uh, I had, uh, the two of them.
Close to me and, uh, like even closer to, uh, to what we normally are because one is still living in Paris. And, uh, uh, another one is, uh, living in Tunisia. And, uh, we've been France since we were six. Um, so it, it takes different shapes and, uh, And it's a bit of a mix what home means to me.