'HomeAway' is a project born out of the insight that relational art is concerned with relationships both as a result and as a material. Having immigrated to the United States recently, I wanted to capture the absence of some of my most important relationships that have become redefined by the geographical distance separating us and are now marked by physical absence, time zone differences, missed phone calls, and moments of loneliness and longing. I called my closest friends and family and left them a phone message, describing the parts of our relationships that I don’t get to experience anymore due to the distance, and asked them to do the same. The intention of the project is to describe these relationships through their absences. I’ve recorded all the messages – theirs and mine – and compiled them in a CD with a booklet, which I’ve sent to all the participants as a token of our newly configured relationship, hoping that it contributes to a renewed emotional connection between us.