Many people dream of their perfect home. 'The home, like dreams, is made from residue, familiar objects, bits and pieces, the detritus of life,' Sam Johnson-Schlee writes in this issue's keynote (p6), 'these are the things we assemble around us to create our fantasy environment.' Homes arc the imprints of the people who inhabit them - their pasts as much as their future aspirations. We shape our homes, yet the symbols and images with which we build them are already set; it takes strength to break apart their solid foundations. Laurie Simmons, the subject of Reputations (pl6), isolates some of these ideals from the tangled mess of domesticity: a plush rug, a kitchen island overflowing with food, a perfectly colour-coordinated living room. The way we assemble a homo says much about who we are, but more about how we want to be seen.
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