My first house was red asks the question, "do we ever really leave our first home?"

This project weaves photographs of bright Victorian houses ("Painted Ladies") with landscape photography, both of which were cut from vintage books and magazines from the early 2000's. These woven images are meant to represent what it feels like to remember early memories, those which act as the boundary for our fundamental understanding of reality. Even when memories are lost to our conscious awareness, they still shape how we experience archetypes, such as the concept "home." We find these memories in our bodies, in our recognition of familiar and unfamiliar, and by our reactions to uncertainty and contradiction.

My first house was red is purposeful in its absence of the human body. This decision stems from my artistic exploration into (the impossibility of) image autonomy and consent, but also it also represents how I believe that the concept of home preexists the concept of persons.

This project is ongoing, and there are more pieces in this series. For more information, you can email alissa.voth@gmail.com.