Having a home doesn’t necessarily mean having a home that looks exactly the same the day you’re born until the day you die. Having a home can be much more dynamic than that. What your home looks like is up to you. There is nothing that says that the television set has to be the centre of the apartment or that you even need a sofa in your house. Do what you want and gather inspiration from Moomin books and sci-fi movies alike when organizing your space.

We aren’t couch creatures. We are born in the ocean and what happens in the ocean is that the water puts everything from sand to rocks to drift wood and fish in motion. Everything changes.

My mother didn’t explain or philosophize it this far before she got started. What motivated her was boredom during days off. I could be in bed sleeping and all of a sudden would feel how the ground beneath me moved. Just like that my bed was now on the other side of the room. She was small but strong.