Our project’s central concept is revolved around relationships within the city. It is these everyday lives of New Yorkers that shapes the poems itself. We want to bring attention to these New Yorkers that come and go to look at those around them and interact. These poems are about the idea of love in the city, the idea of love that changes the lives of people, and the idea of love that shape societal interactions. In a busy city, human interactions are rare. You barely see people take a moment to stop and look around themselves. Everyone just rushes to work and get to wherever they had plans for. When love is involved, however, the people begin to feel, invoke emotional responses and looking for responses. They take the time to think, think about the environment, and think about the people that are on the streets of the city. The poems within our project will focus on expressing these ideas and the theme of love and social interactions. These poems will describe how love comes to life in the city.
The wooden box symbolized unboxed memories, hidden feelings, and the unknown. Love, a complex emotion, is full of mystery. The thrill of falling in love is just like the thrill of opening up the unknown box, not knowing what’s going to happen. The act of searching for someone you love in the city is like flipping through endless poems trying to find the perfect one. The idea of a box relates to the city because it shows how people are trapped in their own state of mind. People are trapped inside their own schedule. The cravings on the box will be the engraved memories of love, the drawings will be what visually aids the reader and the poems are what the reader relates to.
When viewers first see our project, their eyes will land upon the cover. This cover will either be engraved or painted, immediately catching their attention. Our cover is a wooden box; it is very different and unusual, which will hopefully make people want to pick it up, feel it, open it, and see what it’s about. Their fingers will run across the title, our names on the bottom, and near the lock of the box. Once they open this box, there will be a big drawing of New York City. It will be a general drawing, and beneath this drawing will be our packet of poems. They will be able to flip through these poems like a book, touch our writing, and feel the burnt, brown paper that adds to our vintage look. Each poem will be different; even though there is an overall theme of love, some poems are intimate and sentimental while others are more general about love in the city. They will hopefully read through some of these poems, some longer and more descriptive while others are shorter and more open to interpretation. After they are done looking through the packet, they will put it back in the box and lock it up.
Our overall theme in these poems is love: love for the city, love for a significant other, and love for a stranger. The goal of our project is to invoke an emotional response in the viewer. It is meant to make them think of a time where they experienced this type of love and make them nostalgic. It is meant to bring back memories or even provide them with goals for the future where they will search for this specific type of mysterious love. It is meant to help them see the world differently where everyone is going through different experiences and hardships, but one thing that unites us all is love. Love keeps us grounded, love gives us something to look forward to, but love can also be painful. We are hoping that our viewers walk away with the thought in their minds that love gives us life, but it can also take away our lives. Love is almost like a drug wherein the beginning gives you a pleasant high, but once it is taken away from you or it hurts you, you can experience excruciating withdrawal symptoms or even death. But it is high that makes it all worth it.
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