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Refuge

Refuge is the first of two books about my adoption and how it has affected me throughout my life. Before I started the edition, I had never explored my feelings about it in depth or revisited my childhood notions of "home." This book became a way for me to share the idealized world I dreamed up as a child, through the eyes of an adult who knows she can never go there.

​5 x 7
Fall 2010

Refuge

design, photography, printing, binding

Refuge is the first of two books about my adoption and how it has affected me throughout my life. Before I started the edition, I had never explored my feelings about it in depth or revisited my childhood notions of "home." This book became a way for me to share the idealized world I dreamed up as a child, through the eyes of an adult who knows she can never go there.

"Incomplete and abandoned"​

​"I never felt at home"

​"A foreigner in my surroundings"

​"I find myself displaced"

​"In silence I retreat"

​"In silence I wish for refuge"