Building a Home out of Dirt is part of the Nothing Hurts like Home Series, which explores my complicated relationship with homemaking as someone who has experienced displacement because of war. This work was influenced by my move to rural central NY as I simultaneously became a US citizen before the 2016 election. The landscape of Corn fields connected my homeland and Central New York. In the video, I enter the field to try to build a home. Because the dirt has been overworked, it is crumbly and unstable. My labor is repetitive, intensive, yet futile, as every home I try to build crumbles down. This act is a visual metaphor of my experience as an immigrant trying to build a home in the unwelcoming.