Emily Patenaude

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2025, Illustration

This is Home

acrylic gouache, canvas, recycled dollhouse pieces

40″ x 43″

2023

“This is Home” is a piece about childhood nostalgia, memories and growing up. So often looking back on photos of my childhood I feel like she is a separate version of myself, the child versus the adult. I wanted to recreate the feeling of looking back and reflecting on childhood as an adult, and how we as adults perceive our childhood. Though both very different, childhood and adulthood are intertwined with each other, and even as we grow up we are all still the child in those memories and moments of time.

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