This digital artefact is a poetic exploration of existential migration as a deeply emotional, fragmented, and sensorial experience. Inspired by the narratives of nine Russian expatriates, Where Is Home? unfolds not as a linear story but as a series of symbolic, narrative environments, each echoing a stage of identity transformation and migration grief. Memory becomes a space, language becomes texture, and home becomes an elusive sensation - shifting, partial, and never fully reclaimed.
Created in Blender and shaped by metaphors drawn from interviews - colour gradients of nostalgia, recurring dreamscapes, and suspended geographies - the artefact mirrors the psychological dislocation of becoming a foreigner by choice. The work draws on a phenomenological approach, foregrounding how migration feels and is remembered, rather than how it is rationalised. Through narrative spatiality, the story is embedded in the environments themselves: meaning emerges through movement, atmosphere, and immersion rather than dialogue or plot.
Glitches, loops, and ambient soundscapes trace the emotional residues of leaving, remembering, and reimagining home. Rather than offering answers, the work poses a quiet question: Where is home, when home is no longer a place? It invites viewers to move through digital liminality not as spectators, but as co-drifters in a shared emotional terrain.