Home Is Where We Are Together is a mixed media zine, made from materials sourced in the area and filled with poems about making a home here. To correspond with the exhibition theme ‘Locale’ the poems consider concepts such as housing, community and life in the inner city. Jess’s decision to move forward with the project was spurred on by the recent housing activist movement ‘Take Back The City’ whose protests took place locally.

The materials were selected to highlight the relationship between nature and domesticity within the shifting city landscape, all of which were naturally occurring, recycled or from nearby charity shops. In an ever-expanding city during the age of gentrification Jess wanted to gather an assemblage of materials and words to symbolize human defiance. This is a consideration of the different ways we find relief, love and community in a city that’s pushing us out.