Stress Cup

The project was to create a cup that exemplified an emotion. At this point in the semester I was tired of trying to continuously come up with new and original ideas and I was stressed out about my classes. i felt the emotion I could best demonstrate was stress, since I was very familiar with the feeling. 

The cup itself represents life, the cracks- which were specifically craved into the clay, they did not just "happen"- are all of the problems that come up in life that we try to deal with. The finger prints that were sculpted / pressed in represent the remanence of someone who was trying so hard to keep their life together they were crushing, almost suffocating, themselves to try to keep it together. 

Its interesting how old art projects change in meaning as you mature as a person. I recently just started college. It all started ok. And then home life took several turns I was not expecting. I spent two months trying to stuff my emotions to get through the semester and just chose to pretend that everything was ok. No one knew me enough to know that I was acting unusual, honestly not that anyone cared. It is interesting to look back at what I thought was difficult and know what I know now. It is useless to hold onto what is cracking at the seams.

Design. Discover. Create.

AMB