Space: In Two Parts is a two book series which explores our deep relationship with space. Space addresses this intimacy one has with “safe space” not in the spatial sense, but in the mental, non-tangible experience of being in space.

This project seeks to observe and make clear to readers what gives us comfort in spaces, ultimately, giving readers the tools to imagine space outside of the material, physical idea of safe space. My project argues that the goodness of space then, outside the physical, lies in its ephemerality. Space is an attempt to capture that ephemerality of sensations in “spaces”. 

Good Space Journal is the second installment of a two-part project on good space. It is a collection of personal writing, visual art and highly interactive exercises about both myself as well as the reader’s meaningful, intimate experiences of space. My writing and visuals correspond to outlined themes from The Survey Booklet, affirming the elements of safe space with my own experiences, my own artistic presentations of it. Interactive exercises urge the reader to critically reflect on safe space, recording them into the book so that they can customize their own journey into the journal and find their own ideas of safe space again, hopefully as a result to comfort them. 

Space: In Two Parts ostensibly answers the question of how can we capture a fleeting moment or memory of tender, safe, good space?