Family ties

I began writing a little something in my artist statement to try and figure my ideas out a bit. Here it is, unfinished and extremely rough at the moment. But if it helps my brain, then it's all good!

Family is an interesting concept if you think about it. There are the blood relatives, but then there are the partners of these people who enter into the family. When it comes to my family, we all live relatively close to each other, but what I’m wondering is, have any of these non blood relatives had to move to be part of this. I know my cousin has married a Canadian, my brothers’ fiancé had moved from another county, but I want to find out if anyone else has moved like this. I also want to find out if there is some deep underlying factor that is holding everyone so close. It could be something as simple as everyone went to school in the area. Jobs could be a factor, and maybe the lack of people from my parents’ generation going to university has just prevented people from moving away. I know that me going to university away from where I grew up has made an impact on where I may decide to live and it’s definitely entered my mind that living in Wales is now an option.