COSE Journal 3 – Bathroom Sink

COSE Journal 3 turns its gaze to the bathroom sink, reimagining it as a site of self-care, introspection, tranquillity and ritual.

This issue explores how the objects inhabiting this intimate space intertwine with our daily gestures, quietly shaping our sense of self. At its heart is an attention to material presence and the tactile, multisensory experience of this domestic surface, where textures, sounds and sensations converge into a hypnotic choreography. The sink, conceived not merely as a surface but as a microcosm of our deepest, most unsettling fears and thoughts, becomes a stage on which the duality of life plays out in full force. Here, vanity, grime and secret oddities wash away with every stroke, only to merge and form something else down – or up – the plughole.

Modern objects find themselves thrown into a vast, dangerously indi-stinct mass, connected to the subject by seemingly feeble and impersonal relationships. We can react to the desemantisation of the object by continuing to exercise our capacity for affection and prioritisation.

In a society driven by overconsumption and compulsive buying, in an era in which it is impossible not to notice the aftermath of our pur-chases, paying attention to what we buy and how we buy it has become an ethical and political statement. The only way to reassess our understanding of freedom is to cultivate a new type of bond with the things around us, whatever they may be.

/ english
/ soft cover

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