October 21st, 2019

In "Everyday spaces of mental distress: the spatial habituation of home (Tucker, Ian M.)," Ian Tucker analyzes home space through mental health case studies. He moves away from the convention of seeing mental health in cognitive or biological terms, seeing space as a significant factor in psychological well-being. Tucker references Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition to support some of his arguments. In Deleuze's work he says that habits are conventionally associated with the idea of "sameness." He argues, however, that there is no such things as "sameness." Life is the production of difference and repetition creates variation. With this being said, Tucker argues that habitual practices which organize and make space produce the space. Through habit, we create an illusion of stability in repetition, yet drive towards improvement in every day. 

I would like to read more of Difference and Repetition to find the theoretical text which so clearly relates to my work. In this week's video, I use repetition as a means of emphasizing the habits of everyday, the repetitive and almost therapeutic tasks of creating my space. These actions not only create a sense of stability, but also as sense of progress.