HOMECOMING – A project with Bassike by kidsofbill & Peter Van Alphen
FILM BY: kidsofbill
PHOTOGRAPHED BY: Peter Van Alphen
PRODUCED BY: Emma Kalfus, Karla Clarke & Stephanie Huxley
ART DIRECTION: Stephanie Huxley
STYLED BY: Emma Kalfus & Karla Clarke
TALENT: Rosie Tupper @ IMG
HAIR: Travis Balcke
MAKEUP: Samantha P @ Viviens Creative
WORDS: Tatiana Rattigan
With special thanks to Richard Huxley
The journey home is a curious one, full of questions and contrasts. Swinging from sun dappled nostalgia to the things we selectively forget, going home is a mixed emotion that is as comforting as it is loaded. Questions run through your mind like water as you try and preempt if you’re going to feel totally at home or a little out of place. Perfectly ordinary and inanimate objects manage to summon memories that flash through with a kind of abstract yet visceral poignancy. This is the place of first times and cushion-y familiarity; the matte white Datsun autographed with a new ding as it passed down from one 16 year old sibling to the next, the smooth soundtrack of Van Morrison played on repeat over a matter of decades and the kitchen door-come-mural marked with the height of every family member at sporadic interim’s of their life. Time, space and life makes home feel different because we are. Every time we come home we bring new experience, norms and opinions to colour the world we started out in. -TR