Sitting in class, listening to Beth describe this project about the egg, a millions things passed through my mind about what could be done with this egg. Do I smash it in a strangers face? Do I scramble it up for breakfast? Do I bring it home, then back to school unscathed with some story about how I did nothing, clearly reflected on the busy life of a college student who works full time to pay his bills and keep his house payments and credit cards paid? Knowing that as long as I document whatever I did to my egg, was going to give me full credit, I knew that I would not allow my self to puss out and do something "normal" for this project. No faces or cop-outs! Cause knowing we were going to be able to do whatever we wanted to do with this egg, it was game on!!!
A Faberge Egg reflecting my current life in all its "glory and horror!"
Step 1: Ingredients for a successful "art project"!Egg
Tweezers
Super Glue
Benadryl (Antihistamine for allergies)
Hyoscyamine (IBS Medication)
Ibuprofen (Anti-Inflammatory and Pain Reducer)
Pepto Bismol (Stomach Issue neutralizer meds)
Multi-Vitamin (Well... Its a Multi-Vitamin!!!)
Immodium Ad (For Diarrhea Control)
A Chewy Multi-Vitamin to top it all off!
These are all things that I consider being small reflections of consumption of products for my boring life I sometimes think I live, in some way or another. These stagnate medication present conditions of what is just a fractional amount of the real medications that I take to "cure my ailments." Or that's at least what the doctor has told me.
Step 2: Boiled Egg... Now What?
I boiled the egg, cause lets face it... I probably would have cracked or smashed it as I tried to affix all of those drugs to the shell of the egg with super glue.
12 Minutes in boiling water and about 20 minutes of cool down time before I was able to start super gluing my drugs into some kind of pattern, reflecting some aspects of my life. And so it begins!!!
So I started with an old color ring taken from one of my really old prescription bottled. I then attached the Pepto Bismol Chewable tablets as a base for the bottom and to help hide the base ring. As I added more and more tablets to this "Egg" of my life, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to use most of my real medications I partake in on a daily basis. I do take most of what is on this egg, but had to leave out the pain medications or muscle relaxers I use for my back scoliosis and whip-lash. I also have to take allergy meds, sleeping meds, anti-inflammatory meds for my knees/back/neck, and my depression meds, just because I couldn't sacrifice the money I had already spent to keep myself sane and without pain! So what over the counter medications I chose, would have to do!!!
Minute by minute, hour by hour, drugs stuck to fingers, paper, tweezers and each other, I kept plugging along. Trying to arrange patterns with the drugs I was using, making sure that the patterns I was trying to use, would work out. I could have gotten more drugs just so I didn't need to repeat, but then I realized that the drugs I used over and over, were the same drugs that I used more often in real life.
Step 5: Brink this project home!
I don't know how jewelers do it. This shit was way fucking harder that I thought it would be. I still have superglue stuck to some of my fingers and I don't really know if the damn thing will even stay together long enough for people to see it, let alone long enough to get a good grade on it. But I think it will stay unharmed, but only because I left off the narcotics! The last thing I needed was for when/if I passed it around the class, for it to come missing half of the drugs I put on it!
In conclusion, I am glad that I chose this over the parakeet, even thought I think it would have been easier and slightly more fun to produce the parakeet, self reflection is a little easier to work with sometimes when you're not the most creative type! Yet another bonus of this class, will to be to stretch my imagination, not only on projects, but real life situations as well!
