Input and Output

In order to develop my project and start to steer it down a more specific path, I began by refining my concept down to a core idea from the many we had discussed and the one's I'd explored so far. From my last idea, I begun to explore modern life and following the presentation of this concept, the idea of tension came out. I chose to take this as my core concept and continued to develop my project from here.

THE CONCEPTS

Contemporary Life - Tension, pressure, stress

The suitcase is a symbol of modern life;
it is an empty vessel to be filled and to be transported;
it is designed to be portable and manoeuvrable.

We move and travel more and further;
Does our baggage sustains us in our travels
or weight us down?

Travel is connotative with a holiday, an escape,
but do we really escape what we pack within ourselves?

We carry our baggage, both physical and figurative,
It is lightweight enough to transport but it wears us down.

I am in exploring ideas of metaphysical and physical baggage and their link to aspects of contemporary life;
Ubiquitous components of society driven by
tension, pressure and stress;
things which can sustain us or break us down.

This suitcase as a banal, mass produced object will always contain something unique to each individual.

First Concepts

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