Megan S - Audio and Object

I decided to use the one aspect of my life that has influenced so much of my personality - the fact that I never felt like I had a place to call home. While growing up, I moved every other year to a new town, school, even country sometimes. This lack of stability and consistency has formed a lot of my personality. My readiness to travel, my detachment to people, my inability to relate to others are (what I believe) to be a result of not having a single place to live. For me, home is about a feeling. Home is a place you can feel safe and comfortable with people who love you and when the surroundings change, the feeling changes or never actually solidifies. Home helps create who you are and for me, not having a home has created the person I am.
I choose to modify a dollhouse for my object. I wanted to keep the outside exactly the same. So looking from the outside, it looks like the picture perfect type of home that every little girl had. One the inside, I spray painted it white. It is completely empty of any colour showing how this idea of home being a safe, comfortable place doesn't actually exist.
I was thinking about what types of 'home' audio I could use. I choose audio from setting a table, people talking, and kids laughing. This would give the atmosphere of a cozy home with people and happiness. I also needed the other part to this, the 'non-home' sounds which was a bit harder. Every time I try to describe how not having a consistent home has affected me, the word air kept popping up. I feel aloof and an airy detachment. From this I decided to use audio of artic air to blow the sounds of home out and then have it come back. It represents the tug-of-war if me trying to find a place to call home and feel comfortable but never fully being there and staying.
This project turned out exactly how I wanted it to. I never thought of doing this any other way even if I did have more money. However, I think it might be cool to have a full size house pure white on the inside and have the audio as an invisible surround sound as the audience walks through.