Returning Home, Jane Forrest, 2021
A few months ago my friends and I gathered to paint in my garage; this was the first time we had all hung out together outside of school. After an afternoon of painting and laughing we decided to walk around my neighborhood. We walked along a street I had walked along many times before, and we passed this little red house. As the sun shined down on this house I realized I had found my people, I had realized that these people I had seen only previously as friends, are now family. I have never felt more accepted and truly loved than I do by this community. At this moment, I felt truly at home. Now because we are in yet another lockdown, I am unable to feel that safety and family like bond. I then decided to return to this place where that moment of realization and complete bliss occurred, by photographing it I am allowing myself to always be able to return to the feeling of being at home, even despite lockdown.