So i have thought up three different shapes of boxes, and along with that three different themes.
1. Basic cube, might involve some fancy woodwork. this box will represent me. the outside will be my face to the world. it will show the good intentions that i put on for everyone else to see. being happy with myself, my work, my life. the inside will be my insecurities. my fear of not finding a job i enjoy, how i am not always as happy as i appear to be. my self consciousness. i think that everyone has two faces, their public face and their private face. most people never admit to their private face. our culture is so taboo about "being strong, being happy, being satisfied", especially for men. heaven forbid that men have emotions and not always be masculine, lumberjack types.
i think that i would try to create the box in such a way that it fit together as 2 halves (3 sides would form a "pyramid" and there would be rails installed that would let them slide together). the outside would involve pasting images that i felt represented the face that i put on for the public, and the inside would have images, possibly from my own life, of my insecurities.
2. my second box i was thinking of making a little more complicated, and created it out of some kinda of polyhedron shape (pentagon maybe). i wasn't sure what theme i wanted it to have, until i was doodling around the inside of the box, and accidentally drew a stick-figure type shape. i then decided that i would paste the constitution of the united states on the outside, and on the inside will be a model of a man who is chained (arms and legs) to the box. this represents the false freedom that our current administration tries to force down our throats.
i would have that one, or possibly more, of the panels will be installed on hinges, and will be able to swing outwards. i might also be very interesting to have a light set up that would come on when the panels were opened. i would print out a copy of our constitution and cover the outside of the box with it, and perhaps mingle in "patriotic" images. the inside would have a figure of a man that was chained from his arms and legs, and perhaps more, to the box.
3. the final box i thought up would be a tetrahedron. inside the triangle would be a cube, inside the cube a octahedron, inside the octahedron a dodecahedron, and inside that a icosahedron. these are the platonic solids, the only 5 geometric shapes in which all sides, angle, and edges are congruent. also you are able to move from one to the other (using for example clay) by simply pushing in the corners. Kepler used the platonic solids to demonstrate his solid model of the solar system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid). for me, they are about transformation and evolution, of the physical self.
each box would be decreasing in size, and would open along one or more faces in order to be able to see the box inside. if the lighting idea from the previous box is feasible, i might consider applying it here as well. the outside of the boxes might be covered with other images of transformation: a butterfly coming out of a cocoon, a human being in different stages of age. water turning into ice.
this is one of the first projects i have done in a long time where i really like all my ideas, and i am not sure which one of them i should pursue. normally when i am approaching a project i have one idea i really like, and just struggle to think up other tones to fulfill the requirement. but even though this sorta started out the same, i have ended up with three very different ideas, all of which appeal to me in different ways and for different reasons.
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