Breathe

Abstract: Imagine your primary fear. You can’t escape, your surroundings are hostile, and everywhere you look there is no resting point. Everyone has their fear. We all should have the chance to overcome it.With the following thesis, I’m focusing on people sensitive to hospital environments. In particular, hospital waiting rooms, where the amount of stress, generated from the surroundings, can be worsened by the waiting time. Focusing on a radiology department, I developed an installation to give them a place to breathe in, calm, and rest their eyes on. Creating a moment of curiosity. To keep the mind and body distracted, including the environment itself in the process. Not giving a sense of isolation but the opportunity to look at the enemy through a filter, to explore it, and play with it. The installation originated from the lighting properties of a reference radiology waiting room from which I obtained abstract forms. Consequently, I translated these in overlapping, rotating filters, through which the room is looked at and transformed. The person is stimulated by curiosity towards this element in antithesis with the space. Then, the interaction with it strengthens the distraction giving the possibility to keep the brain occupied, watching the space through a filter. Controlling its perception.