Box #4 Process

My main idea for this box was to make a simplified miniature of a child’s bedroom, and to include some of the things that kept me awake at night when I was little. I knew I wanted to include sharks because for years had recurring nightmares about them viciously ripping me apart. I found small plastic sharks at a toy store downtown that worked perfectly for my vision. In addition to sharks, my ultimate fear was Bloody Mary.  I was terrified that she would come into my room through my mirror and hack me to pieces. These were some pretty dark things for a five year old to think about.  I wanted to show this Blood Mary fear subtly so I wrote it backwards on a small sheet of paper, and then when reflected in the mirror, it would read correctly.

The actual construction of the bedroom furniture is what too the most time and effort. I made the bed out of an old medication box and used fabric to cover it in a sheet. Then I sewed miniature pillows to match and stuffed them with cotton balls.  I used vintage crayons for the bedposts. For the wall mirror I took apart an eye shadow container and stole the mirror from it. I made the rug by braiding yarn together and gluing it to a cardboard backing. This actually was the most difficult part and took several attempts; which is ironic because it is my least favorite part of the box. Oh well. I also bought fabric from Joanne’s (I’ve spent way too much time there this quarter) and used it as carpet for the bedroom. I bought the clock at Fun Junk and cut up paper and drew lines on them to create mini notebook paper for the drawings.  Nobody could tell from looking at it, but one of the papers has the initials of my first crush with a heart around it, which is definitely something I drew A LOT as a kid.

The other main part of the process was printing the photos in the black and white darkroom. This is always a time consuming thing and I have found that it is even harder when printing using old negatives because they look really dull are very difficult to print.

This box came together fairly quickly and that is partially because I had been conceptualizing and thinking about it since I made my first box. I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. There are things I don’t totally love, but hey, that’s the way art is sometimes.

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