As i mentioned earlier, although I feel drawn to other places, I don't feel homesick for them, exception might be a little like Sunniva, I did feel tremendous longing for italy, then I lived there for a year and got it out of my system and now would call no place other than exactly where I am home. Where I live makes me smile inside.
However, I do know there is a person who I miss terribly. I never really thought about who they were, until my parents made an interestin observation last visit. Backing up a little I am an artist, I don't do much people portraiture however I do love to draw faces. Sometimes I make them up and when I do they always turn out looking similar, at least the men. I've never shown these drawings to my parents, they aren't overly interested in my work excepting the occasional landscape. Back to my story, a month before their visit I had done a figurative printmaking class. Our last pose I messed up and decided to do a quick gestural drawing of his face. It was very strong and I got several prints off it. One of the prints I added to with pastel. I hung the pastel and the plain print in my house, I really liked them. When my parents visited they seemed disturbed by them and asked several times who he was. Even though I said he was some random model.
Now the thing that just hit me, is that the drawing looks nothing like the model, but very like my made up face. Hope this post isn't too off topic, but I wonder if the face is that of the person I am missing. Even if it was, I am sure he would look different in this incarnation. Would love to find him.