Talking to my friends about their experiences in time was totally different once I made them visually and abstractly express their memories and feelings with painting and drawing. Everyone speaks from their hearts, sometimes I believe that everyone is disconnected from their feelings, without feelings how can there be emotion? I realized how limited and almost trapped their minds were. One friend, I felt was hopeless. I showed her John cage's 4:33 song and she couldn't understand that it is music let alone express music without musical notation. She was stubborn but eventually began a journey.
The idea behind my packaging is the benign cage society has us bound by. In this case it is something visible. More importantly to show time and also to demonstrate the struggle of control. The ability to loose control is not exercised enough, although control of emotions can be helpful sometimes, usually when dealing with strong irrational hateful emotions. It's hard to say what emotion is beneficial or not, everything comes and goes as a cycle of positive and negative. Suspending the minds and repressing feelings, inside is a vision of how we experience time with the struggle to live, smile, remember and express.
