Some thirty inches from my nose

Abstract:

This essay is written in order to better understand the relationship between the air around body (bubbles) and the external environment. Bubbles are explored as a mixture of feelings, emotions, imagination and thoughts, which we carry with us and which are formed by our perception of our environments. I will suggest that the formation of our bubbles is different at every moment, depending on how we feel about our external situation. Bubbles are used in the protection of ourselves, as the invisible wall that forms our territory. Within this essay I attempt to put forward the notion that we live in our own interpretations of our environments. Through a close analysis of my previous work, as well as through an analysis of two workshops that I was involved in, and through a close look at the work of the artist Cocky Eek, I aim to lay the ground for the way I will work with bubbles in my master project.