At some point, we always go back to the places we once lived, where a relative once stood, or where a milestone took place. Over time, we lose our memory of these place and begin to wonder what is truth, what is fact, and what was just part of our imagination. We make an effort to remember a previous home or the voice of a loved one to prolong the impressions they have left on us. Having been imbedded in our minds, it soon becomes impossible to decipher what is real and the way the physical and mental representations of these experiences have changed in our minds over time.
Throughout our lives, we interact with different objects within our environment, some of value and others only temporarily. Items used for a decorative element in a home, …show more content…
I work to address what was once present as away to prolong memories. I am thinking back to how we viewed the world when we were children, how everything we encountered in the world felt so much larger and simple than it actually was. Growing up my grandmother’s living room was full of fragile and breakable heirlooms and, I was a bull in a china shop. Whenever something broke, I would open my mouth and tear off a piece of my bubble gum to adhere the broken pieces back together. While my grandmother never seemed to notice, my attempt to fix these valued objects was only a temporary bandage to fix the fracture. As we progress through our childhood we have moments that alter this perspective for us, we experience the things in life that require us to harden our edges. In my teen years, I experienced a lot of death in a short period, losing multiple people who were all close to me. Some of these people died of natural causes and we had time to prepare and say goodbye while others were abrupt and left much unfinished. I use the balloon as a representation of both the childlike wonder that is associated with the object and also the impending short life span they have. This object presents a fading sense of time that is so closely related to
Throughout our lives, we interact with different objects within our environment, some of value and others only temporarily. Items used for a decorative element in a home, …show more content…
I work to address what was once present as away to prolong memories. I am thinking back to how we viewed the world when we were children, how everything we encountered in the world felt so much larger and simple than it actually was. Growing up my grandmother’s living room was full of fragile and breakable heirlooms and, I was a bull in a china shop. Whenever something broke, I would open my mouth and tear off a piece of my bubble gum to adhere the broken pieces back together. While my grandmother never seemed to notice, my attempt to fix these valued objects was only a temporary bandage to fix the fracture. As we progress through our childhood we have moments that alter this perspective for us, we experience the things in life that require us to harden our edges. In my teen years, I experienced a lot of death in a short period, losing multiple people who were all close to me. Some of these people died of natural causes and we had time to prepare and say goodbye while others were abrupt and left much unfinished. I use the balloon as a representation of both the childlike wonder that is associated with the object and also the impending short life span they have. This object presents a fading sense of time that is so closely related to