so far so great, get with it.
my answer from a discussion in one of the online classes:
How important (or not) is your connection to your home to you?
Does it create your beliefs, your art?
To me, home is where I’m used to. Home is where my family is used to, where they choose to root themselves on. I may not be so proud of the political situation and the selfish society with bad traffic manners, but if this is where my family chooses, it is home.
Being the only one in the family who moves around all the time, I have lived in dormitories, in apartments. Back in San Francisco as an on-campus student, there’s a place I call ‘home’ it is a one bedroom apartment where no one comes in and invade my silence, my privacy. I can blast my own kind of music. I can watch brainless kids show. I can cry my heart out, without the fear of being interrupted or judged. I can do this here in Thailand too, with a plus as shoulders to cry on, people to sing with, people to laugh at brainless jokes with.
There are different things that make these two places appreciable, but they’re both home nontheless. They are where I have to wear no masks nor nod in agreements with things I barely understand and have interest in.
I choose to go into art because of the family business and agreements. All my inspirations come from the things I always saw at home. All my designs are to make these people who live in my ‘home’ proud. Someone once asked me what I expected from Industrial Design School at Academy of Art University, I said: ‘I just hope, that by the time I’m done with this, I’m half as good as my dad and are still willing to learn what he has to teach.’ On a monthly basis, I get to talk to my dad, report to him and try and show him the process of my work. Nearly everyday other than that, would be my mother, who not only offers knowledge of what she sees dad does, but also support and care. On random occasions, my brother offers himself as a role model and gives forceful advice, with a more modern way of thinking that works in every-day situations. It may be a connection through the world wide web, but it keeps our bonds strong, and probably even stronger without littlest things to take away from it.
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