House is Home
Home is where the heart is.....
People make a place, they occupy the space and leave their mark.
So what happens when they are no longer there? They are intrinsic to the fabric of the building.
Their possessions may be there, their taste in decoration and their smell. Ghostly marks on the wall where photographs once hung, worn down steps, worn tracks in the carpet. They are all an essence of the people once there.
Over time and many occupants there are layers of these existances haunting the building.
What stories do these houses hold?
So like all animals we "mark" our personal territory - where we live - and it probably never completely goes. Fragments of us (skin scales, hairs, bacteria etc) permeate everywhere we go and form a historical mix, traceable by forensics and on a more basic level by other mammals with better sensory facilities than us (dogs and cats). I have been in old houses where the sense of previous occupants is so strong that I have asked "is your house haunted?" and been told that many visitors have asked the same. Dogs sometimes growl at "nothing" in a house, cats suddenly startle inexplicably from sleep. We can't easily trace the lives of the people who once occupied a house, but because we love creating narratives maybe we can't resist an opportunity.
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