“Ephemeral Comfort”

I found beauty in the most mundane of household staples—a simple two-ply white toilet paper roll—and elevated it to a meditation on vulnerability, ritual, and trust.

The Object:

A standard 12 cm × 10 cm cardboard core wrapped in 30 m of pure cellulose two-ply paper.

Pristine white, perforations perfectly aligned, every sheet unmarked.

Conceptual Layers:

Intimacy & Exposure: Each delicate sheet symbolizes the moment of private surrender. The purchase and use of this roll represents an act of faith—trusting the paper to shield you in your most unguarded hour.

Impermanence: As the roll diminishes with each pull, it prompts awareness of time’s relentless flow and the fragility of comfort. What was once full and round eventually collapses into nothing.

Universal Ritual: From palaces to tenements, every human shares this brief communion with paper. By isolating that object, I invite the collector to contemplate our commonality beneath layers of wealth and custom.

Owning “Ephemeral Comfort” is both a private indulgence and a public statement: even the loftiest among us bow before the simplest necessities.