Jane Gilmor, Home is Where?

Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

Home is Where?

Detail of installation panels in storefront, (a corner window) this is it installed at Bemis in Omaha two years later. Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991, Detail size; Long wall is 20 ft., (½ the total distance around the corner inside window) Ceilings were 13 ft. in Davenport.

Home is Where?

Detail of installation panels in storefront, (a corner window) this is it installed at Bemis in Omaha two years later. Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991, Detail size; Long wall is 20 ft., (½ the total distance around the corner inside window) Ceilings were 13 ft. in Davenport.

Home is Where?

Detail of installation panels in storefront, (a corner window) this is it installed at Bemis in Omaha two years later. Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991, Detail size; Long wall is 20 ft., (½ the total distance around the corner inside window) Ceilings were 13 ft. in Davenport.

Home is Where?

Detail of installation panels in storefront, (a corner window) this is it installed at Bemis in Omaha two years later. Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991, Detail size; Long wall is 20 ft., (½ the total distance around the corner inside window) Ceilings were 13 ft. in Davenport.

Home is Where?

Detail of installation panels in storefront, (a corner window) this is it installed at Bemis in Omaha two years later. Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991, Detail size; Long wall is 20 ft., (½ the total distance around the corner inside window) Ceilings were 13 ft. in Davenport.

detail of Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

detail of Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

detail of Home is Where?

Community-based downtown storefront project, Davenport Museum of Art and area homeless shelters, Iowa, 1991.

Workshop process

The Big Issue, Homeless Publication and shelter project, London, U.K., 1994.

Metal Note from “remembered space” workshop, My Bedroom

10” x10”, embossed 36 gauge aluminum, 1991, one of notes from wall of notes in Home is Where?

“Key to My House,” drawing on metal tooling foil by homeless child,

1991. 4” x 6”, detail of Home is Where?

Detail of small section of wall of notes, Home is Where?

embossed aluminum tooling metal foil, detail size 24” x 30” 1990

Wishing Fountain, drawing on metal tooling foil by homeless child

1991. 4” x 6”, detail of Home is Where?

Jack’s Weeds, found note transferred to metal foil

found in elderly man’s home who was being taken to a care facility –his home of 50 years being sold. He left notes in all the drawers for the new owners), transferred to metal, 11” x 13”, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1984.

Jack’s Birds, found note transferred to metal foil

found in elderly man’s home who was being taken to a care facility –his home of 50 years being sold. He left notes in all the drawers for the new owners), transferred to metal, 11” x 13”, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1984.

London shelter participant

The Big Issue, London, U.K., 1994

London shelter workshop participant

The Big Issue, London, U.K., 1994

Miriam House

Davenport Shelter, 1990-91.

Window Project, Home is Where? Davenport, Iowa 1991. Jane Gilmor