I’m not home by Justin Close

“It’s nice how film survives… A photograph is just a memory.” — Robert Frank  

I’M NOT HOME is a 204-page autobiography by visual artist Justin Tyler Close, designed by Studio Alabama—a project about memory and family, built from the journals and artifacts that survived a devastating house fire. Photography, drawings, and archival material are woven together to hold what couldn’t be held onto otherwise.

“Throughout his life, he has moved from house to house, country to country—leaving one home in search of another, feeling part of many places but attached to none.”

In 2019, everything burned—except one box of intimate work and keepsakes. This book becomes the archive of what remained.

“In many ways, this book is now his home.”