Between Homes: Roots in Many Soils

My childhood unfolded across different homes — my parents’ in Geneva, after their separation, and my grandparents’, who carried me with their love and traditions in Sicily. Each house was a world of its own: different rhythms, different walls, different landscapes of care. Moving between them, I learned early that “home” was never just one place, but a mosaic of many.

This project is an attempt to trace those spaces — kitchens filled with familiar smells, bedrooms where I dreamt, courtyards where time seemed to slow down. Through these photographs, I am piecing together how those homes, in their differences and their overlaps, gave me roots in many soils.

Between Homes is not only a story about family and childhood, but also about belonging — how identity can grow across places, carried in memory, in tradition, and in the quiet details of domestic life. This is an ongoing project.