The nature of dwelling

Do you need to know where you are to know who are?

If you look and turn back, do you see the places you passed on your way here?
Each dwelling, carving its nature onto your identify. However fleeting the pause.
Shadows built from real and imagined places, embedding themselves into your self
you may not even have noticed it happening until you were already gone.

There is no absolute identity; the self is nothing but a haunting of memories, experiences and fiction.
Each pause is an unravelling.
A fragment of identity found or remembered. A choice, a path, a longing.

You should not have come here looking for yourself. You will find nothing.

—- Angelique Talbot, July 2016

It has been said that dwelling is the manner in which we exist in the world. To be at home in the world is to dwell in the world, “Man’s relation to locations, and through locations to space is in his dwelling” (Heidegger, 1971). Dwelling is an engagement of thought and action, and the way in which we relate to our environments. Our very act of dwelling, interacting with a specific environment in place and time, imprints upon both our thoughts and actions. We are a product of where we have been - be those real or imagined places. How is that we can feel such strong senses of belonging to places we have never been?