'Where Are You From?' is about the idea of home and how it influences people's identity which began from the question “Where do you come from?” asked to me while studying in London. As I come from binational parents and never lived in one fixed place growing up, this question became hard to answer. I experimented through various methods to understand what home represents as a whole. My interest in urban spaces led me to study the physicality and boundaries of “home”. To do so, I conducted a series of interviews on Deptford High Street to study how a physical place such as a street could be a common ground for a community and therefore a home.

I wanted to represent the diversity of Deptford's community and showcase this idea that home is rather a journey than a place. I therefore recreated Deptford on blender through 3d mapping through Google Earth. However, on certain alleys leaving the main road, the architecture slowly transforms into a place a certain individual lived in prior to living in Deptford. As the alley continues, the places keep transforming into the various places that led this person here. Through a couple of these narrated alleys, I hope to showcase this diversity within this same space that is Deptford High Street.

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