‘A Well-Worn Path’ (January 2020) searches for a place to call home as it documents the transitory shifts of others.

This body of work began to take form in March of 2017 as I started documenting the static feeling of being stuck in the

Southeast as some of my closest friends asked for my help in making their life-changing moves out West.

Capitalizing on the opportunity to scout my own place to put down roots, each trip took on greater weight and meaning

as the road did its work on me. I missed home while away; I missed being away while at home. Trapped inside this

vicious cycle, restlessness consumed me both on the road and in my own bed until the question burrowed itself in me:

When is the desire to leave home an honest call to be answered, and when is it merely a temporary salve for our

deeper need for belonging?

These photographs are a pause inside that question. They echo a response to the millennial promise of wanderlust

offered by an incessant bombardment of images on social platforms that present an oversimplification of our lives, and

confess an obsessive inner monologue on the repeated search for the idyllic ‘home’. I ask the viewer to give

consideration to the widening gap between the actual experience of our lives and finding a place, relative to the

effortless, idealistic images that we consume and perpetuate.

_ Z. Suggs