{"id":398,"date":"2014-02-21T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/?p=398"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:36:18","slug":"homing-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Homing Instincts 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Homing Instincts\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

This series of paintings \u2018Homing Instincts\u2019<\/strong> investigate the complex concept of home – the geographical and psychological space we occupy and consider as our space, where we belong and feel part of as in your home – country!<\/p>\n

There are millions of\u00a0people on the move in this world at any one time (220 million in 2013 – International Organization for Migration), what do they have to do to feel at home in their new destination?<\/p>\n

How do we psychologically contemplate and develop our new mental concepts of home, our identities and our new places of permanent residence? Nationality, identity, belongingness, homelessness, migration and immigration are a few terms that pop up – the tip of the \u2018iceberg\u2019 when you enter and explore the concept of home.<\/p>\n

These paintings investigate a possible process of how we accumulate our feelings of belongingness or homeliness.<\/p>\n

I explore the fleeting images that I constantly and continuously perceive on a daily basis as I traverse my adopted city of Vienna – On my regular drives and travels through the city, I take snap shots of these fleeting images with my phone, that register in my consciousness and that I repeatedly see every day. I work, draw\u00a0and paint from these images transferring my subconscious memories from personally developed and arrived at methods onto the canvas.<\/p>\n

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James P Kinsella, ‘Herschelgasse’, 2013, 80cmx100cm, acrylic on canvas.<\/p>\n

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James P Kinsella, ‘Hofbauergasse’, 2013, 80cmx100cm, acrylic on canvas.<\/p>\n

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James P Kinsella, ‘Raxstra\u00dfe, Wasserturm’, 2013, 80cmx100cm, acrylic on canvas.<\/p>\n

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James P Kinsella, ‘U4’ Margareteng\u00fcrtel, 2013, 80cmx100cm, acrylic on canvas.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Homing Instincts\u2019 This series of paintings \u2018Homing Instincts\u2019 investigate the complex concept of home – the geographical and psychological space we occupy and consider as our space, where we belong and feel part of as in your home – country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamespkinsella.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}