Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 60 cm

 

This work recalls my family’s first year in the UK, when sudden homelessness revealed both the fragility and resilience of home. With nowhere to turn, it was a stranger who helped us find shelter, and my father’s words — “Home is anywhere you lay your head on” — became our truth. Home was not walls or a roof, but the safety and love we created together, even in uncertainty.

 

The painting challenges anti-migration narratives by asking how empathy shapes survival. For me, the question remains: if that stranger had not shown us kindness, where would my family have slept that night?