Space is a Being

​

What if we lived in world where we no longer had the ability (or right) to have physical human contact? What if we needed to devise ways to take care of our need for touch through some other means? Could certain spaces act as a surrogate? Could we feel held by a space? In Space is a Being, I created a space for participants to be held, comforted, and transported away from their loneliness and into the arms of a space to hold them. I wanted to provide a solution to what I think is a very common human problem—an unfulfilled need for touch, affection, tenderness, and care. What if, in the absence of sentient contact, a space could hold you as if it was a being, itself?

​

Moving away from a paradigm of human-centric, partnership-centric, touch-centric beliefs, I am curious to turn instead to surrogate companions in the form of space, light, texture, and sound. I'm interested in a paradigm which responds to the diversity of preferences and unique creativities of our population, which looks without prejudice and accepts the “abnormal” as pioneers for new beginnings. I think we are all co-creators of our loneliness through our act of stigmatizing it and further stigmatizing any “unusual” ways we respond to it. I think it is only when we give permission to be lonely, and permission to take care of that loneliness in whatever way suits us, that we will begin to co-create a solution.