Create > Emotion Box
Goal: Assemble found object to symbolize emotions.
Catalysts:
Symbolism, connections, emotions
Studio Activity:
Find a box that has compartments such as a spice box, tackle box or sewing container or make a shallow compartmentalized box of cardboard or wood. Within each compartment carefully arrange objects, images, textures, found objects, parts of mechanical devices, texts, poetry, calligraphy and collage pieces from magazines or newspapers. Arrange, alter and combine the elements within each compartment to signify a human emotion. For example a twisted ribbon might signify love or a relationship or pieces of broken mirror glued over a photograph m ight signify anxiety or a compartment painted blue with cotton balls glued on might signify peacefulness or a mouse trap with a snared gummy bear might signify accomplishment or a piece a drift would with rusted nails might signify serenity.
Artist Profile:
The box is the central metaphor of Joseph Cornell’s life. He made boxes to keep wonders in. He used a multitude of found objects representing expansiveness and flight, penned inside cases expressing a simultaneous tension between freedom and constraint.
Allison captures scenes inspired by her emotional and physical attachment to her surroundings at home in Maine along the sea coast. The imagery is a metaphor expressing those emotional and physical attachments to the natural environment. Her mixed media dioramas are constructed from layered ink and watercolor illustrations assembled with pins and strings.
Visual Examples:
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