I used this project to think about how I’ve learned to manage and control my thoughts. The bottom shelf shows how easy it is to let obsessive thoughts creep in and gain control. I know I’ve let these type of thoughts and worries really take a lot of joy away from my life. The next shelf is full of the journals I’ve been keeping the past few years. Being able to write really helps me to slow down and check in with myself. Writing these things down often allows me to move on and let go, I tried to show this with the tissue paper and cotton I used billowing up and out of the pages. It shows the flow/release from my thoughts, to the page, and back out into I don’t know where? the universe? nowhere? I don’t know but at least it gets out of my head.
I really like what you were able to create out of your cabinet. Above all, it tells a really good story that it true for so many people today, everything is so chaotic in life until you just focus on the little things and what you enjoy. It was very obvious through your designs that the bottom was chaotic and as you rose it got more and more peaceful.