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Article: BEING AWAY.(Yane Calovski)
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- Afterimage
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- January 1, 2001
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In 1997, I started "The House and its Imperfections," a series of drawings referring to the structural and speculative logic of the home designed and built by my parents in Skopje, Macedonia. It was during this time that I first began to recognize the importance of my "original address," my own singular history. I've been away from Macedonia since 1991 and never thought that I would "return" home through my work. What fascinated me most at the time was the effort my parents were investing in the house amid all the uncertainties in Macedonia. It seemed to me that they were, in some way, adjusting the building to every social and political change, rebuilding and improving ...