Experiments(Rebecca)

Anger-Expression

After talking with the psychiatrist I came up with the idea to break something against the floor to mimic someone getting angry as one of my experiments. I found that taking pictures of the things I had broken made me feel angry when I was doing it and it felt good to express my anger through physically breaking things.This is a research strategy I enjoyed and I think that I got to learn allot more about anger and context. Each item has its own background and the act of me breaking that item means something different.

Here are a few of the things that I smashed against the ground repeatedly in a fit of anger and each means something different due to my framing and the item itself. I chose to break to objects on the concrete in my driveway because it would be easier to clean up and I could make a mess and nobody will enter the area for a while.

This was a clay pear that I had made when I was a child, breaking this is like breaking a piece of my childhood out of anger and not being able to put it back.

This was a keyboard that I used a long time ago, breaking this is like breaking a part of my introduction to art.

This is the second stage of breaking the keyboard, it looks like someone got into an argument and hit the other person with a keyboard and the broken pieces resemble the broken connection between the two

The third stage of the keyboard looks like it was left on the road and then run over multiple times, almost like it was abandoned.

This was a umbrella that looks like it was left behind, like a shell being cast aside when it is no longer needed, being left with the wind.

This looks like the aftermath of a homeless mans tent being broken into, it caries the emotion of the mans loss and the anger of the person breaking in.

 This is a pump that looks awfully lonely surrounded by its broken bits, like a family that has been torn apart by anger.

These look like something that has been trampled on in a fit of rage and left behind to suffer.

These three images are the progression of destruction, it is like an abusive relationship that gets worse as time goes on until there is nothing but the broken shell left.

By adding context to these images of me simply breaking things I can give it new meaning, this can be a good or bad thing, it all matters on a person perception of my work, to me it is an expression of my anger towards these objects. I felt like I got the expression and anger part down on this experiment. What didn't work was the context changed the meaning of these images from pure expression to something beyond that. Next time I will try to channel the creative ideas in a way that is productive for me.