Homesick Blues #3, 2025
(Made with Petar Zekovic)
MATERIALS
SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO, MAPS,
DIALOGUE TEXT & FOUND OBJECTS
PERFORMANCE
JULY 22ND, 2025
In 1999, my best friend Petar and I met in our hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. After 7 or 8 years, my family uprooted our life in the Midwest and we moved around until settling in Los Angeles, California in 2013. Despite not living in the same city, Petar & I remained in contact, and stayed best friends.
In 2020, Petar ended up living briefly in Chicago, Illinois, a city we both dreamed of moving to as kids, but then eventually moved to California in 2024. I stayed in California for 10 years until I got accepted into grad school, and coincidentally moved to Chicago the same year Petar moved to California.
In the summer of 2025, Petar and I met up in our hometown for the first time in years. We aimlessly drove around our hometown, both ending up driving around Chicago, recording our thoughts on places of emotional significance to us. In both our drives, we ended up talking about our mixed emotions about our dead-end hometown, our relationship with our mothers, deaths in our family, and about the impact we’ve both had on each other’s lives. The following work contains dialogue, writing, and found objects that denote the specific kind of relationship I’ve had with my best friend growing up in a small town in the Midwest.
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