“All across the country, there was misery and rejoicing. All across the country, what had happened whipped about by itself as if a live electric wire had snapped off a pylon in a storm and was whipping about in the air above the trees, the roofs, the traffic."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ali Smith  "Autumn"

In the light of recent political propaganda the image of the migrant has been stigmatised, creating an atmosphere of unease and displacement, a state of rootless limbo that resonates with the pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort.
 
Farewell my lovely engages with Belfast’s foreign residents and their homes in an attempt to scrutinise the ways in which our close surroundings influence the shape of our identity.