Sometimes our best isn't quite good enough
And the last word in lonesome is me - Eddie Arnold

Home. It was always about home. It was about the family and the veneer of simple country life. Then there was another war. And when they came home, it wasn't back to their rural home, they returned to the city. And then it wasn’t about home anymore; it was about the city and about being detached, about being alone.

This is the basic premise behind The Last Word in Lonesome is Me. Set up as a three channel video projection that shifts perspectives and narrative chronology, this project analyses the fallout of country music’s move from the country to the city.

Using the soundtrack of Eddie Arnold’s, The Last Word in Lonesome is Me, Faron Young’s I Guess I had too Much to Dream Last Night and his cover of Hello Walls, and Jimmy Reeves, Make the World Go Away, these videos investigate this geographic and the psychological move cross country. Within all the videos the viewer is confronted with contrasting images of rural life and urban living. The images play off one another: suburban furniture is accompanied by black eyes and beefsteaks, birthday cakes contrast leaky ceilings and lonely highways, and their soundtracks mimic the fragmented persona of the lonesome, detached traveler.