I've gone and finished my first MADT project of the year. Which I am pretty sure I am calling "Ashes and Dust," but the odds of my cooking up something better at some point seem fairly high, so we shall see.
On a broad scale the piece explores the harmful effects of culture on the individual. The hard drive, which stores the content of the ipod, is replaced with cigarettes, something literally dangerous. Both the cultural detrious and the cigarettes share the same assoccation of "cool."
On a more personal note, I also enjoyed the symbolism of replacing the sound track of my youth, which is what was on the hard drive with smokes.
Aesthetically I also enjoyed the chance to mix the ultra modern, the ipod, with the archaic, the cigarette case.
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