Activity: warm and eat food
State of mind: rejection, denial - agoraphobia
Office area: open-plan office
Occupation: appliance repair person
“... alone in the big open-plan office Nora starts to feel scared during the night. The lifeless workstations conjure up visions of graves in a cemetery. Sometimes a small noise frightens her so much that she goes around checking that no-one has burgled their way in. Her rejection of the open space, her agoraphobia, overwhelms her; so she proceeds to close in one of the workstations so as to create a 'safe space' or den. She takes up the strips of carpet, turns the desk upside down and uses the carpeting to fence in the desk. The ceiling's made by suspending many computer mice from it. She completely encloses the workstation by piling around the upside-down desk in the centre many office machines: computer screen housings, printers, fax-telephones and computers, along with reams of paper and other office supplies. This dining workstation (as she intends it to be) is a sanctuary made of office objects that shield and protect her. She takes the electrical appliances to pieces, as a repair person would, to create artefacts which she uses to store food, heat it up and finally eat it... while she eats she gazes at the diminutive green shoot in a plant pot that she found one night in the occupied office below. She tends it with the utmost care because it's the only living thing she owns...”
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