Project #1

 

For my first project I decided to discuss the aspect of material possession that is associated with death.

 

My motivation for the project came from inheritance from my great uncleÉ I of course was to put this directly into the bank (and not into the laptop I had been looking into getting for the past year.) Thus I created a piggy bank of items of which I had received.

 

 

 

 

 

The best part of the project was creating it, and if youÕd like to see the process, feel free to click on the picture to the right for a photo tour of creating a papier-m‰chˇ animal of your own. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Items within my bank include the following:

 

 

-               Envelope that carried inheritance check

-               Dog collar from my precious puppy, Scout.

-               Copy of yearbook page I had to make for a friend who died in a car wreck

-               Death certificate of my great grandfather informing the family that he had committed suicide

-               Roadrunner pin that represented my grandmotherÕs travels

-               Diamond necklace left behind from my grandmother

-               A multitude of pictures of my grandmother, puppy, great aunt, and others who have passed away, but will always live on in my mind.

 

 

 

The reason I chose a piggy bank was in effect to display how I had been holding in my memories, in a bank, scared of ever thinking about them, or sharing them, or even accepting that they exist. I wanted to be dramatic and throw the sad attempt for a pig on the table, with the contents scattered about for everyone to see, but decided to be less messy and just use a knife to slaughter my piggy bank, exposing my memory entrails.

 

 

 

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