De-tablization Final: Music Box
When starting this project I had difficulties on what can I make out of a table. My brain would automatically go straight into furniture but that would of course not fully become a sculpture piece. I decided to explore more what a table means to me. Tables I usually associate with family gatherings usually the typical eating around the dinner table with family where you would converse, laugh and bond while eating. I grew up in a toxic environment so I did not experience that perfect “Sunday Dinner” moment that I had seen on TV as well as experienced in other people’s homes. When I was upset or felt troubled I found comfort in my music boxes when I was younger and would constantly play with them to avoid or repress trauma that happened when I was younger. The music box would transport me into another world where I felt comfortable in my own avoidance. I was forced to find comfort in material objects and isolation instead of with family. I made it larger than a traditional music box as if to state how I am hiding my problems in this big beautiful box, all sides are decorated except for the back which shows how ugly and tangled with wires which reveals this truth of the situation and which can be seen by the viewer besides me covering it when playing the song. I decided to play swan lake but changed a few notes around to make it sound a bit off in it’s composition. I enjoyed how I was able to get different reactions from the song from it brought back triggers to outworldly to Shakespearean tragedy that was my main goal to evoke different emotions from the audience and I was glad to do that effectively, As for the song Swan Lake I do have a personal connection with it, growing up my mother put me in ballet to help me gain confidence at an early age it lasted for a short period before things throughout childhood got worse. I wanted to showcase the bittersweetness and pain that happened during that period in time. I found out this piece became a vent art piece because I ended up opening wounds that I thought healed with recovery. This piece can be treated as the end of that chapter.
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