I worked on several book projects with her, and kept in touch over the years. She was very generous in her collaborations. I am fortunate to have been one of the many people whom Ursula Le Guin brought into her creative universe. I knew she was getting older, but she still seemed invincible to me. She wants to consider sustainability, ecological awareness and responsibility.When I learned that Ursula K. Sangam’s work shall be made via low carbon methods using low energy principles. She created an astounding oeuvre weaving together history and myth, fable and poetry, story- telling and song, relishing intricate world-building – Utopia as a method. The title of this work is borrowed from a book by Ursula LeGuin, an author of speculative fiction working on the very foundation of ecofeminism. What’s a different way to think about how images are composed and read? Working with photography, text or titles as well as other elements, she creates (mixed-media) works that show unknown places (by blending in existing ones), creating different worlds altogether (proposing a new outlook).

She wants to focus on the potentials of home, community and kinship and outline alternatives where there is a space for everyone and there are multiple ways and paths. Dropping in and out of places, transnational fluidity as a way of life (which used to be our lives). Sangam tries to read and understand her queer mixed-heritage identity in line with a more global shift towards a nomadic sense of community, looking for pockets of belonging in multiple spots. “ What does my fondness and longing for unknown places say about my own identity and how do I relate to the space I am in? Is place integral to identity?“ She offers a change of perspective while thinking about practices and structures. The concept of home is approached from a queer and ecofeminist point of view, challenging familiar positions while focussing on the transformative elements.

Building on this piece she wants to expand these ideas and continue to explore the concept of home in different ways and mediums. In Sangam Sharma’s previous video essay Another Europe, she began to examine the connection between places and identity, trying to understand her space in place. (…) May your soul be at home where there are no houses. Let very old things come into your hands.

Always coming home