stop-motion, digital, and analog animation.

In "Call Home," I seek to create a representation of my relationship with the house in which—and the family with which—I grew up. Experiencing the death of my mother when I was eleven and the evolution of my family in the aftermath, I created "Call Home" as a yearning for a life that never existed, one that can only be imagined in brief memories of domestic love and youth. The ballpoint-pen animation is a nod to my mother, who introduced me to art at a young age with sketches in that style; the audio is a mix of recordings: my mother playing the piano, another art form she passed onto me, and a telephone call to the landline of my childhood home sent to voicemail, one of the few remaining existences of her voice.