Sentimental images interpret what it feels like to return home after being gone for an extended period of time. A lady travels through the city and forest, and approaches her childhood home from afar. The house seems minuscule in comparison to her giant stature. Her mom (or grandmother?) gazes lovingly up at her and she looks like a skyscraper. When she bends down to give her mom a kiss, the lady's lips are so large that they cover the majority of one side of her face. The girl smells a familiar meal, and she is transformed to a younger, smaller version of herself and she can barely see the soup on top of the table.
The White Ravens 2015 catalog explains that Chernysheva "depicts the power of memory without words, sensitively, [and] tenderly . . . cleverly picking up the theme of changing perception by playing with perspectives and proportions."
O Regresso [Homecoming] by Natalia Chernysheva. Portugal: Bruaá, 2015. [9789898166258]
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