Portable Home explores the relationship between objects and the concept of home, focusing on how belongings hold emotional significance beyond monetary value. By examining personal attachments to possessions kept through recent moves, the work considers how objects maintain stability when environments change, challenging societal standards that dictate the perceived value of belongings.

The polaroid is the primary medium, producing both an object and an image that can be shuffled and rearranged. Starting with an archival image of a car boot overflowing during a move, the work captures a state of transition. The polaroid process juxtaposes this by physically trapping these unsettled moments into small, square prints. By documenting each item unpacked, the work considers how home becomes both grounded and portable, accumulated in objects kept or left behind.

The project consists of three elements: photographs, a receipt, and a short film. The polaroids isolate individual items in a portrait-like manner, while an itemised receipt records objective data like dimensions and origin. This categorisation prompts reflection on whether items were gifts or purchases, linked to function or memory. Finally, a short film of the empty car documents the arrangement of polaroids within the space, using gestures of reordering to show how home is continuously constructed through what is carried.