The theme of this season is Home. Chloe Spiby Loh 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. Chloe Spiby Loh 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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Being asked to think about what home means to me has proved a bit more difficult than I think I'd anticipated. Something that could be so simple that really everyone can answer, can become something quite complex and send you down a rabbit hole of memories and thoughts and ideas. But I guess. To try and answer the question.
I think for me, home is something, perhaps in the future. I'm not sure that I've lived in anywhere current, uh, recently or, or currently that I would describe as a home. I think it's something, an ambition, a striving towards, um, idea or concept. I've moved a lot, um, in childhood and I guess. That's the reality of living in London, uh, renting place to place.
Um, I grew up in Singapore. I moved to London. I've studied outside of London, so I guess there's been lots of periods of moving between places where houses just need to be good enough, just need to be good enough or, or just, they just need to be okay for the right price or the right amount of time or the right location.
Um, Whether they can feel or become a home, become secondary, um, because maybe home is the thing that you are working towards and you are making all the different compromises for. But I think, and maybe the less existential way, the sort of very pragmatic things around me that I use to build and make a space that feels homely is something that I guess everyone's had to really think about or act on over the last few, few years.
I guess going into covid and lockdown, you know, what was around you in your flat became super important. And um, for me, I think I went into a period of just trying to make everything very comfortable since we were in for the long haul. And I think I realized for me that was lighting and plants and the objects around me that I've built up over my life that I've brought with me and decided to keep.
Um, I guess the act of deciding to keep them means that they're coming with me to that future home. So the pieces of the home already exist, but perhaps the full puzzle isn't yet in view for me. This year has been quite fragmented with different places of living for sort of unexpected reasons. And um, yeah, the idea of building and making a space that feels.
Good enough to feel comfort, comfortable, and safe has been something that me and my partner have been doing. And, um, yeah, it's amazing how even just the minimum, you know, a comfortable chair with some cushions and the throw with a couple of plants, the right kind of lighting can make something that very quickly feel more comfortable and safe and more you.
Um, So I guess those are sort of, for me, the minimum things that would make home is the objects that I carry and take with me