Sitting [Un]Comfortably aims to create conversations around the limitations of ‘comfort’ through techniques of film, collage, assemblage and photography. This research is motivated by the origin of the word ‘comfort’ translated from old latin to middle english reading as something that is strengthening, a support and a consolation. Comfort becomes a form of ‘support’ through compositional arrangements that can affect our reading of spatial situations as well as inform new meanings. The domestic interior is explored as a staged environment housing clues to everyday situations that provide a narrative of space.

 

This research is led through a series of investigations that look at processes of juxtaposition and displacement, arrangement and forms of support to inform narrative. By means of extracting elements of site and layering information, the work investigates how site can be experienced externally through material and object.

 

The project speaks to moments of things being propped up, leaning against, sitting on and supported by other objects. The domestic life acts as a framework for my investigations aiming to produce situations that speak to the privacy of home, architecture of residence, household objects and the everyday. Comfort develops as a situation that provides support to the happenings of site.