My Creative Mind: Caught between Art and Design

“Window to the soul,” is what this past project was called. It was for us to take something like a box and do a biographical design inside.  I wanted to show my creativity inside the box since that is a big part of my life.  While doing this I found I was mixed between showing art or interior design as things that inspire me. I have always been caught between art and interior design.  I love both and have always been pushed to choose between the two. I feel like just because I am an interior design major doesn’t mean I have to loss passion and love for art. I  fell like they can be brought together and work in harmony; which my box did.

So inside the box I used mixed media on the back ground, I used pictures of thing that I love and inspire me, red and white dollies, and red roses. All the pictures used were pictures of art, interiors, people, and thing in nature that inspires me. I used the dollies that were shaped like hearts to show things I love and the ripped dollies stand for thing I am no longer in love with but still in my heart.  I used roses and leaves to show how I grow and change and how beauty blossoms. I also put a bag that has fallen over at the bottom of my box that had art and interior design tools spilling out of it.  I had magazines that I like to read and also a UNA catalog to show how I love UNA and the department that I am in.

On the outside of my I rolled pages from old magazine because it represents ideas that grow inside my head. Plus it shows  another part of my life of how I am eco conches that I upcycled these old magazines and turned them into art. I also used a red colored scarf as a curtain on the front. I also think the red scarf is like an abstract view of “the curtain of my mind”

I am very proud of my box. I feel like it shows my concept of my creative mind. I like that every time you look at it you can see something you didn’t see the first time. I feel that my box shows how art and interior design can work together in harmony. I just love how everything works together to show my ideas; however many there may be.