Waiting Room, 2022

Waiting Room was an installation for waiting. By assigning the task to wait, you are responsible to wait, and productivity gets tangled up with inertia.

It can be hard to implement patience and rest without it being for someone or something outside oneself.

A waiting room is the closest to a break without taking a break, your availability is unavailable. It is disguised relaxation.

Personally, waiting is my preferred method of escape, because when I am entirely available to just be, I am not present, instead I see it as an opportunity to pile on another task. Similarly, adding lanes to a highway doesn’t reduce traffic, it accommodates a higher volume of traffic. Technology has given us more time to do more tasks, not more free time.