For our first project in the print program we've been asked to create a print which incorporates a word, somewhat à la Ed Ruscha. Words are hard for me, and I think a word is the most difficult thing.
I spent the weekend in New York, as I've done at different points from a very young age, and across from our hotel there was a graphitto "homesick" and it made me think about the word nostalgia. Nostos (νόστος) algos (ἄλγος) literally means homecoming distress - a homesick of sorts, and I suppose I relate to that -- within the idea of the journey home there is also a pain which happens in a sort of retrospective manner -- the painfulness of memory which the word nostalgia has come to represent. Present also in the word νόστος and its odyssean roots is this idea that home is this sort of unattainable destination, because time and absence change a place in an irreparable sort of way.
