ART: Alessia Camoirano Bruges brings us a fluid art piece that explores intense feelings of home, family, distance and existence.
Author: belongingmag
From Continental Europe to Cosmopolitan Canberra
REFLECTION: Krystian Sadkowsky recounts his family’s complex migration history to where they are all settled today.
1999
POEM: Kiran Bhat takes us to a hotel room in 1999, where he and his parents prepare to attend a special event in the US.
From our fence to yours in Kauai
REFLECTION + ART: Biljana Cvetkovich describes her migration to the US and how she came to live in her beloved new home of Kauai, which inspires her artistic practice.
Art and Migration
ART: Kirandeep Grewal shares with us her migration journey, across three continents and through various artistic media.
To be or to be
THOUGHT PIECE: Anna Koestenbauer considers the contradictions inherent to ‘being’ a migrant Australian.
I am Piedmontese
REFLECTION: Mirella Sadkowsky narrates her migration story, exploring the impact of distance on her sense of cultural identity.
Connections, far away
BORROWED MEMOIR: Dunja Kaczmarek recalls two moments of surprise connection with fellow cross-cultural migrants across two countries.
Home
REFLECTION: Božana Pašić contemplates the restoration of connections lost to time and war, and tracks how her family’s notion of ‘home’ has changed over multiple migrations.
On the move during COVID-19
REFLECTION: Nicola Jones shares her family’s experience of COVID-19, straddling life between Japan and New Zealand.
