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The eye, sometimes called “the window to the soul,” becomes the window to a story about finding where you belong. “Home” is a video project completed in December of 2007 during my senior year as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The idea was about personal intimacy. I wanted to tell an intimate story from an intimate perspective. Personally, the story comments on my experiences in Chicago upon arriving their from a small town. The video starts out chaotic and fast paced. You can hear and see evidence of the big city and it’s effects on a small-town boy. As the video makes it’s way to the end, the setting gradually becomes less and less chaotic while sounds become less jarring and more comforting.

While I did have my own specific ideas for making the narrative, I wanted the video to be shot and presented in a way that would be open for interpretation