To create this sculpture, I began my exploration of the theme ‘home’, and rather than viewing home as a physical place, I chose to see it as something emotional and internal. Emotions form the core of who we are; they offer us stability, comfort, and belonging, but also change, uncertainty, and fear. To express this, I drew inspiration from the film Inside Out where each character embodies a different emotion, and utilised that to create my sculpture by combining many different elements that play with texture and shape. 

My approach to the theme of home was to try to create a feeling of warmth and comfort through the idea of nests- small, warm, handmade and safe places of comfort and familiarity. I recently made soft toys based on ragdolls that I quite enjoyed making myself and found easy enough to do, and wanted to try to do that again. I remembered that I used to crochet a lot too, and figured I could use that alongside my soft sculpture to help create the feeling of home. I used the soft sculpture skills I had developed during the collaborative project we did as a class for this project too, particularly invisible stitches and neat sewing.