New Idea

So I have change my idea just a little for my show. I want it to be more about how thinking the grass is greener on the other side but you then realize that it is the same color and maybe the other person is falling apart from the inside. What is on the inside really matter you can hide it for a while but it will come out one way or an other. The inside of a Rubik's cube is very important too, the inside is what makes the outside function.

Building the Cube

My mind has been on many different things this past week and not much on ideas for building a rubik's cube. Right now I am working on a cube that is 12 x 12 that will appear to be breaking apart with smaller cubes falling out. This is meant to symbolize how on the outside things look perfect and "solved" but on the inside life is falling apart. It's kind of like the old saying "grass is always greener on the other side" when in reality the grass is the same.

Cube of Life

One day while playing with a Rubik's Cube I began to think of the cube as if it was life. We are moving things around in our life to get everything to fit together, just like you would do with a Rubik's cube. With this thought I came up with an idea to create a Rubik's cube that shows how people struggle everyday to get their life together.

I have started one cube that is made from clay. The cube is a foot and half by a foot in half. Instead of making the cube perfect it is cracked and does not fit together. The squares will have images of different social and political issues that people struggle with. For example, family, money, religion, the American dream, etc. This cube does not fit together to show the struggle we have and how some may feel that there is nothing they can do to get their cube of life together.

I will also be making more cubes that show different angles of life and how it can be put together for some. There is no one way to solve life and for most of it we will spend the rest of our lives trying to get the pieces to fit. Just like it is with some of us who have trouble solving a Rubik's Cube.

Think about it, is your life like a Rubik's Cube you can't seem to solve?