Sam Oerlemans

Western culture is entirely oriented toward the mind. At school, we are taught cognitive skills, but nothing about bodily awareness. We then enter working life, where most of us spend our days sitting behind a desk. And when we do not feel well, we are told to change our thoughts.

But our body is our most important instrument, especially when it comes to emotional and social well-being. When we go through something significant, the tension created by that experience settles in the body. And when there is no space for processing it, this can manifest as restlessness, fatigue, or even physical pain.

Come Home invites you to shift your attention from understanding to feeling. To move from your head into your body. Rather than analysing emotions, the work focuses on listening to what the body has been holding all along.

The animation tells the story of a person who, after growing up in a broken home environment, finds peace and healing again by shifting their attention from the mind to the body. The work explores how the body carries memories and how reconnecting with feeling can help us rediscover a sense of safety and connection with ourselves.

Welcome home to your body.

Come inside invites you to shift your attention from understanding to feeling. To descend from your head into your body. The focus is not on analysing emotions, but on listening to what the body has been holding all along. The animation tells the story of a person who, after a disrupted home situation, finds peace and healing by shifting attention from mind to body. The work explores how the body carries memory and how sensing and feeling can contribute to (re)discovering safety and connection with oneself.

Welcome home in your body.