42. "Design a box within a box to illustrate selfishness"
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
--Oscar Wilde
Inspired by this quote, I wanted to create a square box with separate compartments. The box has nine compartments in total, and in each, there is a small box with different shapes. I want to establish a feeling that the large box intends to use its square compartments to turn all those small ones into squares like itself.
I hope that the boxes can have their own aesthetics, emphasizing the differences, and each box can help store and arrange items. Because I wanted the feeling of conflict and contrast, I might use different materials, including 3d prints, birchwood board, and acrylic. I hope to use all the techniques we learned in this class.
Here are some progresses I made.
