Heart Lines

Heart Lines encompasses Lauren’s feelings about her self-identity as a South African Australian. As an immigrant torn between two places of belonging, she is always homesick yet always home. She finds that any moments that connect these two homes become meaningful and important. She sees the mists that descend like a wall of white from the mountain or off the sea in Cape Town when driving along wintery Melbourne roads. This piece encompasses these two sites of belonging, the black and white of the glaze representative of two homes, similar but distinct, separate but more meaningful together.