Fluxus Box
Trying To Escape
18in X 13.5in X 5in
The sculpture represents the longing to escape from the unescapable. Feeling like you are so close but never seeming to reach the other side. The box holds a visual representation of that of a suitcase covered in "stickers" that relate back to the theme , like the FREE ? photo. The suitcase contains items such as a key in a box that you can visually see but cannot take out, doors without handles, and a map that leads you only back to the beginning. This piece is supposed to make the viewer feel like these are all ways out, keys, but none of them truly are the key to the cage.
Process Photo
Research
These themes came from a movie called Don't Worry Darling. This movie is about men and women living the perfect life, or one might think. The men leave for work at the same time everyday synchronized. The women cook, clean, shop, and dance together. They come together at the end of the day to share a meal and host parties. Some women become mentally ill and are sent away. In the movie it is learned that they are all real people living in a simulation in which the women are trapped in their homes with mechanisms on their faces. The men choose to put their wives into this system to try and give them the perfect life and take care of them, but it is not freedom. The women who try to escape are just brought back in and are stuck in a loop of feeling crazy.
Fluxus Box Artists
Some absurdism in a box for you: George Maciunas's Burglary Fluxkit, 1971
Both Found in Flux's Box Artists
