The Box

A graphic image that often speaks to me and seems to want to take form in fiber is the pile (or moving chain) of colourful and mysterious containers I see when passing by storage yards, trains or ports. What is inside? Where did it come from and how has it travelled to get there?

Those colourful boxes remind me of the excitement of Christmas parcels waiting to be unwrapped... and I think of stowaways trying to escape to a better life, and the post-apocalyptic scenes from iRobot or Wall-E as these boxes become homes for our ever-growing collections of stuff, wanted or discarded for something newer, better and brighter.