Reference Manual for Boredom and Distraction symbolizes the experience of going out in the world and feeling like one has entered an enormous and over- whelming library where one desires to try and grasp every bit of information. This project shows that we no longer see any one thing individually, every image or idea becomes juxtaposed with many others at any given moment, and these then become tacked to the abundance of ideas we have collected in our minds. An attempt to organize or make sense of these easily accessible ideas inevitably ends in further distraction.
This book presents a theoretical process of obsessively collecting unrelated fragments of information from the world and re-organizing them in an attempt to make sense of the vast chaos. Meaning is exterior to what is actually seen, all information has been divorced from its original context and organized as if for future reference. Theoretically, then, this reference book would be carried through the world and referred to as a guide to making sense. However, such a goal could never possibly be achieved.
