01 ‘an Island of order’ (אי של סדר)

Experimental Design | Conceptual Research | Editorial Design | 3D Printing | Video Art

‘an Island of order’ (אי של סדר) is a research book on the relationship between physical and mental disorder. The book catalogs piles of objects, and analyzes them through repetitive visual experiments. The images go through a process of scanning, printing and other graphic manipulations that represent an emotional processing process. The book examines how the ways in which things are piled up reflect emotional states, with the aim of finding sense in the chaos or at least to embrace it.



          

The research began with a personal question: Does my physical space reflect my inner space, and vice versa? I’ve always been a scattered person, both in mind and in habit, and a bit of a hoarder. I experience within me a combination of OCD tendencies (hoarding and obsessive behavior) and ADHD, which creates a lot of chaos. Visually, I’ve always been drawn to layers, to piles, and to the transience of everyday life.

In addition to examining this reflection, I was curious to understand why I find so much beauty in the physical disorder around me, while at the same time feeling so repelled by the internal chaos.




I began comparing. The inside to the outside. When I looked at the things I’ve been collecting over the years, I thought of the memories and perceptions I struggle to let go of. When I looked at the pile of items pushed behind the neatly folded clothes in my closet, I thought of the things I hide from my friends when I say, "everything's fine."

I focused the comparisons into six types of piles in the new theory I developed. These piles can be found everywhere, and I, being an extreme case, examine them more deeply, offering examples of specific real piles from my own room.

The 6 types are:
Random pile, accumulation, Pandora, loop, interim station and chaos.





Each type of pile represents a parallel between physical and mental clutter. Each type forms a chapter in the book, with each specific example of a pile in my room serving as a sub-chapter. Each sub-chapter contains the same experiments I conducted on the piles in my room, including 3D scanning, texture mapping, color mapping, measurement, angles, findings, fossils, color channels, and more. These repetitive visual experiments represent a process of emotional processing.

All types, piles, and experiments are cataloged according to a coding system, allowing each finding to be traced back to its corresponding pile and location. An index of the experiments can be found at the end of the book.


Room map


Pile type [P-T.1-6]
Specific pile [P-T.1-3]

Angles


Fossiles [F-T.3.(1-10)]
Findings [Fi-T.1-6]
Samples [S.T-1.(1-10)]


Color Mapping [C-T.3.(1-14)]

Color Channels



In the color channels experiment, I documented the piles and divided the digital image into the print color channels—CMYK.
I printed each channel separately in black and white, then repeatedly printed and scanned them at different resolutions. In some images, the pile eventually lost definition as separate objects, instead appearing as a unified whole, allowing its colors to take on more presence. This experiment represents a repetitive process that simulates emotional processing.

                   


After all the experiments on the piles, the index appears.
It’s organized meticulously, utilizing the page’s transparency as another expression of the "layering in piles." The index displays all types of piles and specific piles examined, mapping out all colors and fossils cataloged throughout
the reasearch.



While the earlier chapters were my attempts to find some logic in the chaos or to impose some order, this final part marks my surrender to my inner disorder, creating intuitively. This section presents processed black-and-white images that serve as the "behind-the-scenes" of my research process—artifacts from the journey, screenshots of my desktop and design software, and thoughts that surfaced along the way. And as I surrendered to the disorder, I may have found a bit of calm.












And following the end of the book, the exhibit featured a video art that continued the line of intuitive emotion — a glimpse into the more raw, behind-the-scenes processes and the chaos that emerged from the work. It included videos filmed within my room, screen recordings of my workflow with 3D scan files, and a digital exploration of the disorder.

*The original video shown in the exhibition is about 10 minutes long. This is a shorter version.

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