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Memento: "Boxed Breakdown"
Wood, orange acrylic paint, gray acrylic paint

This memento represents a memory from last summer the night before my 19th birthday. My mom was out of town and my now ex-boyfriend wouldn't spend time with me that night. I was feeling extremely lonely so I took my dog down to the beach and sat and watched the waves and sunset until I had finally broke down. Early that year I had been rethinking the whole relationship and it had finally got to me and I called a close friend and confessed all my thoughts and needed advice. 

The wood was used to make a structural illusion that made the back panel the main focus. The gray color was used to depict the emptiness that was built up over the past few months. The creamsicle-esq orange painted on the back panel represents the sunset that surrounded my right side on the beach that night and embodies the more colorful/fulfilling future that was awaiting me after the relationship ended.


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