🎨 Home is a tapestry of colorful memories 家是交织的彩色记忆

This was at the Tate Modern, visiting the exhibition “Do Ho Suh: Walk the House” 🏠 by the Korean artist Do Ho Suh.

The artist, who has lived in Seoul, New York, and London, explores the interconnectedness of home, space, architecture, and memory throughout the exhibition.

As someone who’s lived abroad, I’m sure many of us can relate deeply to the experience of moving and searching for a place to stay.Personally, I’ve moved five times in the past five years. Every time I leave, I feel a pang of reluctance, as if I’m saying goodbye to a dear friend—my little room. There’s always a sense of gratitude and nostalgia for the memories that took root in each space.

For me, "home" has gradually grown beyond the foundational memories shaped in my hometown of Kunming. Even the way I describe my current place in the UK to my parents has changed—from saying “back to the dorm” to simply “back home” 🔜.

🏠 I once came across a definition of home that really struck a chord with me: Home is where you feel truly safe, comfortable, and full of energy.

As I’ve grown, I’ve shifted from relying on my parents for this sense of security to learning how to create that sense of certainty for myself ✅.

I used to love collecting souvenirs wherever I went, bringing them back to decorate my little space. It was almost instinctual—wanting to fill the foreign space with tangible traces of my experiences, as if to root myself. But now, with a stronger sense of confidence and belonging, I realise that impulse may have stemmed from a kind of quiet anxiety—an uncertainty about where I truly belong, where “home” really is. So I filled my space with things connected to me, as if surrounding myself with the past could help comfort and accompany the “me” living each day in this unfamiliar place.

This exhibition brought all of that back to me, prompting me to reflect 🤔 on what “home” means to me, and how I might better build my own dream home.

I especially loved the video installation at the far end of the gallery, where the artist imagined the midpoint between his three homes (somewhere in the ocean!) as his dream home. He introduced the idea of bridges linking all three places, constructing a home from the connections between them. There was even a Ferris wheel 🎡, made up of the small shops he frequented near each home—cosy cafés, steamy breakfast joints…

Maybe a dream home is just that—not disconnected from one’s memories, but built from the familiar people, places, and routines that provide comfort and certainty.

In that way, home is something we carry with us .The past and our memories, like sheer fabric, layer and intertwine, moving, evolving, and enduring with each of our steps. 👣

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是Tate mordern 的韩国艺术家 Do Ho Suh 展览

Walk the house (行走的房子🏠)

艺术家分别在首尔，纽约和伦敦定居，展览主要集中了他对于家，空间，建筑，回忆的串联探讨。

作为留学生，大家大概都会对于搬家找房深有感触。

在五年里搬了五次家的本人，每一次搬走时都会很舍不得自己的小屋（小房间），总是觉得很感谢也很留恋这些回忆；

家对于我来说逐渐不只是在昆明这座小城里的性格塑造的那些根本性质的回忆，和爸妈打电话对于在英国居住地的定语也逐渐从（回自己的宿舍）直接（回家）

🏠 之前有看到过一个对于家的定义深入我心：家是那个可以让自己真正感到安全、舒适、充满能量的地方：

成长的我也从依赖父母提供这种安心感，转变为自己给自己提供这种确定性。

之前走到哪里都喜欢买上一大堆纪念品带回来装饰自己的小屋。日常中也会很下意识的想要用自己的经历化作的实体物品来尽量全部填满这个异国的空间。

但如今拥有了更多自信和对这个地方的归属感之后，发觉我当时的那些下意识实际上仍然包含了一种心慌慌的不安，因为不确定自己属于哪里，哪里才是家，所以想尽量用和自己有关的东西来放置在空间中，让过去的记忆和自己站在一起，抚慰在这里度过接下来的每一天的我。

看展览时让我想起这些，也再细细思考🤔家对我来说意味着什么，我可以如何更好地建构属于我的“dream home”

也很喜欢最里面大屏幕上的那一段影像，艺术家把自己的三个家的中点（在一片大海里）想象成自己的 dream home（见图7）, 并且提出了桥梁的概念，把它们都链接，搭筑在一起。里面还有一个摩天轮🎡，是由他在不同的家附近最常去的小店们组成，有咖啡小馆，有热气腾腾的早餐店……

梦想里的家或许就是这样，不会完全脱离自己的回忆，仍然由那些熟悉的，为自己持续提供确定性和日常温馨轨迹的人和事组成。

家也就由此被自己带在身上，过去和回忆像轻纱一般重叠交织，随着自己的脚步👣移动、延续和变化。