Goodbye Home captures the moment displacement becomes normalised. A line of figures moves forward in silence, burdened with belongings, while a single child remains behind, not resisting, but releasing. The house, rendered as a fragile balloon, floats upward tethered by a thin, wavering line. It is no longer a place of shelter, but a memory, light enough to drift away, heavy enough to hurt when lost. The figures march forward without looking back, suggesting forced migration, economic exile, war, or quiet social displacement. The child’s gesture is not one of protest, but of acceptance. Hope is present, but isolated. Home becomes symbolic rather than physical, something remembered rather than returned to. By removing context and geography, Mr Phantom universalises the experience. Goodbye Home is not about one country or crisis, but about a global condition: movement without belonging, progress without return.
