collections

I collect ideas about home and about the loss or lack of home. 

Lacan speaks somewhere about collections (& when I come across it again I'll give you the reference). He speaks about how collections are usually dull and have little to say. One day though, and I think it was just following WWII, he visits someone at their home. The host, he had made a collection of matchboxes. He had connected all the matchboxes by sliding one end open and inserting the next matchbox into the slot. 

I remember doing this when I was a child, making miniature 3d landscapes. The man had strung these around the inside of his house and Lacan says he had made something beyond a collection, or that is how I read and remember it. He had made a chain of these matchboxes that were leftovers and in a time of scarcity and rations. 

I want to collect the remnants, the small pieces and ideas about home here and I hope by doing so that I will find something beyond them. Maybe just some conversations about home and homes.

I want to post and be the poster of some questions about what homes are and how we make them and how we sometimes don't. Underlying this of course is my own wish for a home that I know in some ways I won't ever really find. But along the way, I want to build some kind of home for myself along the margins and in-between the insertions and deletions.