Cosmic Loss

We are too inspired not to share something. In 2026 Office of Everyone began a new field of inquiry that approaches grief and loss through shifts in magnitude, moving between the domestic and the cosmic, the intimate and the absurd. Inspired by Jack Hardiker-Bresson’s experience of losing his father three weeks after the birth of his first child, this inquiry considers finality, grief, the viewpoint of those left behind, and a woven mass of fantastical and dissonant speculations about what might come after death.

The work considers how grief reshapes our sense of where we are, and how we understand significance in relation to what is no longer there.

Drawing on Kees Boeke’s 1957 book Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps and the familiar narrative context of Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 film Powers of Ten, this inquiry explores grief through an interstellar lens, shifting perspective and position.

Within the work, a fixed point may remain, a specific place tied to loss, while the frame expands and contracts around it. As scale changes, what feels all-encompassing and central may become distant or invisible, yet does not lose its meaning. This tension between disappearance and persistence sits at the core of the work.

We are developing a series of interconnected experiments that test these ideas through text, experimental performance, immersive installation, film, animation, multi-channel sound, and spatial environments. Together they form the early stages of a new practice. Watch this space.