A Road Home
by William Mark Sommer
portfolio shortlisted call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2025', 2025
Category: Memories and Traditions
Home, is it a place, people, or a feeling? In A Road Home along the Lincoln Highway, I sought to answer my own intrinsic questions about the concept of home. Returning to my hometown after years away, I felt disconnected, experiencing the changes that happened during my absence, from a gradual moving on of locals to the absolute gentrification of rural space. My recollections in this changed space inspired me to seek out what remained, what once was, and what has become of my home. By following the main street of my hometown, The Lincoln Highway, I found the people and places that shaped my concept of home. These reconnections imbued my soul with a new, more profound relationship to the past and helped me understand the concepts of home within people and place. Though home will never be the same as my childhood, this project drove me to find peace in this place as it is.