Being, Entombed

"Being, Entombed" is a poetic photo-essay, which comprises ten diptych-collages and free verses delineating the evolution of home as a dynamic space of becoming and alterity rather than a place of origin or destination. This photographic series proposes a deconstructive depiction, positing home as a structural necessity and reflecting on it as an inevitable statement of differentiation that can be visualized as a porous geographical border of in-/exclusion, an existential boundary between safety and threat, or a locus of transformation in the face of encountering the other and discerning an otherness at the heart of the self. Being synonymous with a tomb (oikesis), home (oikos) marks a place of transformation and emerges as a paradoxical space that entombs difference, endowing it with an identity and a name, but only in relation to another name. Thus, the metaphorical entombment of difference within the home highlights the complex interplay between polarities—self and other, inside and outside, stability and change, light and shadow—suggesting both confinement and potential for metamorphosis.