The Familiar

Do you ever come across a photograph of a room, a room that is a thousand miles away, and it comforts you like a warm blanket? You've never been in the room, but it takes you immediately back to a room you HAVE been in? A room from your past, with happy memories, images that can immediately bubble to the surface because they are apart of you?

These photographs come from Belgium, from architect and designer Ta Yang, and they remind me so much of the farmhouse I grew up in. I haven't seen those rooms for 17 years, but I can almost smell them, feel them, be surrounded by them when I look at the top one, whose yellow and mint and windows remind me of our dining room. And the blue walls of the bottom one are identical to my parents bedroom. I can remember taking naps in there in the summer. I can almost hear the wind in the trees outside right now.

Seeing these today takes me back and takes me home. Is there a photograph that is important to you? Not because you are personally familiar with the scene but because it connects you to something important in your past? Please share a link to it, I'd love to see it and hear the story.

(images property of Ya Tang)