Friendship

There is an old adage that says, “Home is where the heart is.” Coming to terms with where your heart is, what it needs, and how it desires to be known sometimes feels like a Zen koan. These are deceptively simple ideas, and there is no single, logical answer. And the processes through which the questions are answered are often more important than the answers themselves. If we are privileged enough to be able to make our home anywhere and truly know our heart, this knowledge is also a responsibility. A community of friends who can help sort through and discuss these questions is also truly a home.

Maureen Gallace makes small paintings of nondescript houses in the style of historical US landscape painting. They are comprised of amalgamations of places she has been or seen, but Gallace considers them absent of specific meaning. They stand in for an ideal of how instead of where we might choose to make a home.”

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