Settling Down Tough Case for iPhone®

Home. How do we define a ‘home’? Is it only one physical place? It couldn’t be, right? After all, people move and suddenly what was ‘home’ becomes a new physical place. Beyond immediate surroundings, think of the concept of ‘home’ in terms of the nation-state. “We’re home!” people shout as they exit an airport. Suddenly, ‘home’ is not a particular building (such as a house), but a vast, ambiguous space with many houses and other structures, including the natural environment. In this sense, ‘home’ is a concept in the mind that includes other people and their houses; anonymous buildings and landscapes and all the animals and plants and other organisms that inhabit this space. What about the concept of ‘home’ as a feeling? In movies, a character will recite the line, “You feel like home,” to describe the feeling of belonging, empathy, and solidarity. While these are interesting perspectives, this painting is about more than a physical place or a feeling; it is about the journey of life itself.

The entire image is a single line that begins faint and grey at the top and curves and thickens and blackens at the bottom. This represents birth–the time of life when we had no experience–to adulthood in which we have accumulated experience. The image twists and turns because life is unpredictable and includes regression. The bottom of the image is the thickest because we have finally ‘settled down’ into who and what we are. Ideally, by the time we reach late adulthood, we ‘know’ who and what we are and have accepted this. We have done the work of ‘knowing thyself’ at the subconscious level. We are no longer battered around by the winds of the world, the turbulence of life, because we have done the work of understanding our personalities, our flaws, and our habits. We understand our defenses against our own internal world. We have accepted the parts of ourselves that we rejected–or had to reject to survive. We have settled down rather than acting out for attention, admiration, or the acceptance of others.

This image is a representation of that journey to find ‘home’ in the making, in the construction of living as a process, not a place, and my hope is that every time you see this image, you connect with yourself at this level of awareness. Perhaps the most powerful quote to describe this is by the psychoanalytic theorist Carl Jung who said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

The Settling Down Tough Case for iPhone® protects your phone with style using a durable, dual-layered case. The outer shell is made of impact-resistant polycarbonate, while the inner lining sports TPU lining for maximum impact absorption.

• Polycarbonate outer shell
• Thermoplastic Polyurethane TPU inner liner
• Dual-layer protection
• Precisely aligned port openings
• Induction charging compatible

Important: To accurately view the colors and saturation of the products, please make sure your device's display settings are set to "Natural." Please also note the color of this print will be more grey at the top and darken to black at the bottom.