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This interactive piece takes on three different forms: a website, a road sign, and a magnetic poetry kit. The steel sign shows a map of the southeast US, spanning from Virginia upwards all the way to the state that sits between Alabama and Louisiana. From shame and discontentment to nostalgia, the magnetic poetry kit contains a collection of 100+ words deriving from various references, emotions, and experiences I have attached to where I’m from.

The magnetic words from the kit can be arranged on the map, inviting people to bring in their own interpretations to the collection. The corrugated plastic sign affixed below mimics a bandit sign, luring users to access a survey. This website generates a customized poetry kit centered around the users’ ideas of home. The words entered from the responses can then be shifted and rearranged to form new meanings and thoughts around the concept of home and belonging. This digital experience emulates much of what went into making the physical poetry kit and map.