memory

"The container I am constructing is to hold memories of my senior year of high school, which is one of the most missed memories to me right now. My best friends and I made a mix (cd), which consists of songs that we used to listen to during our lunch breaks when we went out for that one-hour we ha every day. We also made a DVD photo slide show of prom and after prom. I would like to assemble something that will hold those two disks securely, so I can keep them without damaging them for a lifetime. I am thinking of creating a case with a mat board, so It can be very durable, and covering the mat board with either a nice textured paper or cloth. I picture the case to be rectangular, almost looking like a normal DVD case but a little bit more thick and sturdy. On the front of the case, I am thinking of putting a picture of my friends and I in the middle.” This was my first iteration. But after our first critique, I decided that I wanted to construct something less literal. I didn't want my project to be an actual container that held a memory.

So this is my second iteration/my final project. I chose to pick out the most important memory of senior year, and that to me was graduation. When I finished my second iteration, I really liked how it came out. So for my final project, I decided to use my second iteration, do some touch ups, and fix the imperfections. The actual shape of the container(box) represents my life up until graduation. Coming from a small town in New Jersey, all my life I feel like I was stuck inside a security box. My graduating class consisted of a little over 100 students, and half of them I've been to school with since kindergarten. Everyone one knew each other in the school, and we all knew of one another's drama and business like it was our job. My high school and my town was a comfort zone to me, and when I walked down that aisle on graduation day, I felt like I was being released out of my security box since it was finally time for me to stand on my own. On the bottom of my box, there is a picture of my family and I. That day, I received a bouquet of sunflowers from them and the three sunflowers on the each side of the box represents a family member that showed up for me...my mom, my brother, and my cousin. The one empty side represents my father. Due to the fact that he lives all the way on the other side of the world, he could not make it to my graduation. I always wished that he could have been there to watch me complete a chapter of my life and wonder how proud of me he would have been.