The RMG wants to know what #feelslikehome

By Aly Beach/The Oshawa Express

What makes you think of home? A book? A lake? Maybe the beach? The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) wants to know.

For the #feelslikehome exhibition, the RMG has put out a call for submissions from the general public and they’re looking for pictures that explain what makes people think of home, whether that’s a person, place or thing.

“It’s kind of a community driven exhibition that kind of shows how home and a sense of community can be one and the same,” says exhibition organizer Sonya Jones. 

Typically, community exhibitions ask for the public to respond to a collection. In this case, the public provides the collection and the RMG responds to them.

Photos can be submitted on the RMG website, Instagram (@rmgoshawa) and on Twitter (@theRMG). The photos will be printed off as 4×6 inch photos and displayed in the art gallery. According to Sonya Jones, the hope is to create a wallpaper of sorts out of the images.

Even though the event began April 28, the RMG will keep accepting images and will add to the display as time goes on. The event runs until Aug. 26.

“So the idea is 160 photographs to install next week so that people have general sense of what the project is all about and then when they see it, they will want to contribute,” says Jones.

According to Jones, they have received a lot of outdoor, nature-type images, the opposite of what she was expecting.

“I thought there would be a lot more interior, kind of intimate photographs of like, curled up on the couch or reading a book…but a majority of the images are actually outdoor images which just shows how nature (is) such an extension of ourselves and our feeling of self,” says Jones.