The village broadcasts itself.
Every community talks about what it is doing. Few are built, from the ground up, to show it. At HOME, the studio is not a hobby room tucked off to one side — it is one of the load-bearing walls of the enterprise.
A healthy flow of information, in and out.
Ask who HOME is actually for, and the honest answer has two parts. Locally, the community offers food, ceremony, and genuine relationship — real, warm, but modest in economic terms. The people who will actually sustain the enterprise financially are, for the most part, somewhere else entirely.
The audience interested in fasting, in rites of passage, in conscious birth and conscious dying, is real and significant — but spread thinly across the world. Reaching them is not optional marketing. It is the core mechanism by which the enterprise survives. The studio is how that happens.
Talks, music, film, and teaching — made here, about here — carry HOME's way of thinking out into a world that is, in its own thinly-spread way, already looking for it.
Different materials. Same purpose.
Sound, paint, clay, metal, wood, and thread. Different disciplines, different hands, the same underlying work — making something real, and letting the world watch it happen.
Metal, clay, and timber — the studios in daily use
Paint, thread, and sound — the creative life of HOME
Not just the finished thing.
The construction of the village. The building of the permaculture garden. The art as it is made, not only once it is framed. HOME is filmed and written about as it becomes itself — because a community mid-formation is more honest, and more useful to others, than one already finished and polished.
Every community meets conflict and struggle. How we confront it can be of as much value to the wider world as anything we get right the first time.
Witnessing an experiment in real time — including the parts that don't go smoothly — is worth more to someone considering their own path than a highlight reel could ever be.
The core team will come from everywhere.
Because the people HOME serves are scattered across the world, so, in all likelihood, will be the people who come to build and hold it. A multinational core team is not a complication to plan around — it is the natural shape of a project whose real community was always going to be bigger than its postcode.
That makes it essential to nurture the ties team members already carry — to family, to culture, to the places they came from — rather than treating arrival at HOME as a clean break from them.
Facilities for family visits mean relatives can spend real time with nieces, nephews, and grandchildren — vital to healthy children and strong familial bonds, and one thread among several in how a thriving tribe stays woven into the wider world it came from, rather than cut off from it.
Want to see it in progress?
The studio's output — talks, music, and documentation of the build itself — will be shared as HOME takes shape.
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