Home isn't always a place of comfort. Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of mind, says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the American Folk Art Museum called 'Somewhere to Roost.'
The collection of 60 pieces in the exhibition 'Somewhere to Roost' at the American Folk Art Museum explores artists' conceptions of home through various mediums like paintings, illustrations, folk art objects, collages, blanket chests, quilts, and family photographs.
Artist Thornton Dial Sr.'s collage piece 'Birds Gotta Have Somewhere to Roost' conveys the idea of home as a nest, with weathered wood, burlap, carpet, and tin materials representing a nest-building process for birds.
The article also discusses how home can be perceived as a prison, illustrated by a drawing called 'Devil House' by Frank Albert Jones, depicting home as a literal prison cell experienced during incarceration in a Huntsville, Alabama prison.
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