3, 30, 300, 3,000: A Durational Psychosomatic Inquiry into Grief; Repetition, Rounds, and Reconciliation
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"3, 30, 300, 3,000: A Durational Psychosomatic Inquiry into Grief; Repetition, Rounds, and Reconciliation is a live, durational research work investigating the nature of grief and how it can be processed through repetition, ritual, reverence, material engagement, and embodied time.
The project unfolds within a spatial structure in which thirty white and off-white materials, selected intuitively, are mounted on wall hooks and worked sequentially through repeated rounds. Each material is formed into a loop and handled in three segments per round, creating cycles of action that unfold through counted repetition.
Over a four-hour period, these rounds accumulate toward thresholds of repetition: 3, 30, 300, and eventually 3,000, reflecting stages at which bodily familiarity, pattern recognition, and psychosomatic shifts begin to emerge. Drawing from embodiment principles associated with the thresholds of 300 and 3,000, sustained repetition allows newfound physical, emotional, and cognitive patterns to become known to the body, creating the conditions for bottom-up insight and the possibility of reconciliation.
Visitors encounter the work as a live inquiry rather than a staged performance, witnessing an unfolding process in which counted cycles, ritualised repetition, material handling, and time-based research create a structured environment for working with and through grief as an extended practice.
Situated at the intersection of communications design, psychosomatic research, and phenomenological pedagogy, the work contributes to investigations into process-based learning, iterative cycles of practice, embodied knowledge formation, social pedagogy, expression, and emotional experience within public space. By making the labor of grief visible through repetition and sustained inquiry, the work invites viewers into a shared space of witnessing where loss, likeness, and meaning-making unfold collectively."
