The+Closed+Box

The Closed Box...
"Whats done can't be undone" -William Shakespeare

When I finished this project, It was finished. I was done. I could rest. But every time I walked past the room I kept it in, I had to resist the urge to drop by, to touch part of it. My solution? Tape the Box shut. I had to accept that my project was over, and that I did the best I could with the random junky articles I found around my house. Then I realized, that was my point of the entire project! This sudden insight told me that 'what's done is done' and that I, along with many other people, have issues dealing with this concept. You've seen a person dwell on things that happened in the past: worry about a bad grade, stress about the awkward encounter you had earlier with a crush, or just live in the past, wishing everyday was yesterday. But the problem is, if you never stop looking back, you can never look forward! This is why my focal point of the box, is the pair of glasses. The glasses that force you to look forward to see the project! You can't see what's going on in the box any other way, just as you cannot in life. Inside my box, as a secondary focal point, I included the girl from atop a trophy, hanging to her apparent death. Death is an irreversable thing, and it's not avoidable. It's symbolic for the ending of life. I believe that is the only real time when you should look back and absorb everything that happened in your past: when you no longer have a future to look forward to. Other articles in the box, such as the frayed ribbon and the torn-out tag, also stand for irreversability. That ribbon will never be whole again. That tag will never be attached to the item it was once attached to, at the level it was before it was detached. Just as a broken relationship can never be rekindled at the level of the original, the box will never be healed from the holes I cut into it.