Honey is Home: Part 2 is the fourth installation in a series of performances which explore the nature of intimacy, longing and loss. Earlier performances explored the pain, and the sweetness, of the act of longing and waiting for a loved one's return; taking direction from the writings of Roland Barthes . This latest performance illustrates the lovers' joyful reunion, surrounded by video documentation of the trials of past longing and separation, to which, inevitably, there will be a return.

Another element returned to in this performance is the issue of gender. In his book, Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes offers a theory which states that in the act of longing, it is the woman who waits and the man who leaves. A man waiting, in a passive role, becomes feminized, and vice versa. In the Honey series we challenge this theory by blurring our gender roles – who is male, who is female – have either of us become a new gender? Who is waiting, who is the one who will return?

In our earlier performance series, Surgemony, we created a snapshot of our lives leading up to Llewyn's gonadectomy; the first stage in gender reassignment surgery - and the fears and reactions from our friends and family. The goal of these performances was to show the effects of significant changes in any intimate relationship. Through the use of text, live performance, and video, we discussed how identities and bodies change throughout the life of a relationship - regardless of the genders of the two people involved.

There is a huge lack of writings, research, and discussion around intimacy and sexuality within people in transition. In Honey is Home Part 2, we address the universality of longing, loss, and reunion, which exists in all intimate relationships, though we also take this opportunity to shed new light on the subject of transgendered people and their partners.