stop-motion, digital, and analog animation.

In "Call Home," I seek to represent the melancholy and wistfulness I feel for the house in which—and the family with which—I grew up. The ballpoint-pen animation style 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 answering machine. Experiencing her death when I was eleven as well as the evolution of my family in the aftermath, I created "Call Home" to express a yearning for a life that never existed, one that can only be imagined in brief memories of domestic love and youth. Because one of the few remaining existences of her voice is preserved in an answering machine message, yearning to hear this snippet of what my family was in the past meant hoping that my call would go unanswered by my family in the present.