COLLECTING COMFORT: INTROSPECTION THROUGH INSTRUCTIONS
COLLECTING COMFORT: INTROSPECTION THROUGH INSTRUCTION began as an attempt to “prove” and measure the notion of comfort through the arbitrariness of habits and recurring patterns. Rooted in personal introspection, the project explored the quiet assurance I find in following instructions and knowing their conclusions. What started as a curiosity about how comfort and being reveal themselves through repetition became a shared experiment — I created a set of instructions and distributed them to friends and colleagues who were in similar stasis as I was, wondering whether this sense of comfort could exist beyond my own perception. Though I first approached the data with an analytical, almost scientific mindset, treating comfort as though it could be quantified, the responses were generative and behavioral, often reflecting fragments of spaces or moments. Interestingly, the process of following the instructions seemed to create a temporary space of comfort in itself.
The circles that appear throughout the project were inspired by early sets of visual data, evolving into both a symbol and a structure for the work. Rather than measuring comfort as a fixed value, the circles attempt to translate it into something physical — not as a definitive unit, but as fragments that can be pieced together and arranged in a rhizomatic way, much like the experience of comfort itself. This publication stands as a compressed and visual translation of that self-generated, self-contained collection of comfort.