You are where you are.
Home(s) is an ongoing series exploring spatial biography. It is a study of how spaces shape who we are, reflecting on the places that define a sense of self: rooms once inhabited, corners remembered, spaces returned to in thought.
The photographs trace my personal spatial landscape, the places that became part of who I am. They are places shaped by memory – of those who once filled them with life, of former selves, of laughter, worry, and sadness, echoing in objects, materials, scents, and sounds.
Am Hof is the first part of the series. It is a visual inventory of my grandmother’s farm. Like many rural farmhouses, its agricultural life has come to an end. The animals are gone, but the last remnants of hay and straw still cling to the old wooden beams. In the grain store, dry seeds settle into the hollows of the dusty floor. Time has left its mark.
Within the nearly 500-year-old walls, artifacts from many lives have accumulated; the building has been extended, rebuilt, altered, adapted — and parts torn down. Yet even in its now quiet state, the place remains alive with care. Flower pots are thoughtfully arranged, laundry is freshly hung in the courtyard, family photographs are framed and displayed — small, tender gestures through which my grandmother continues to breathe life into this place.