Performing with Principles: Fluxus Box

Communicating a Character

Materials: Foam core, gold spray paint, hot glue, pink fabric

Dimensions: 15 inches in width, 7.5 inches in height

Artist Statement:

My Fluxus Box was inspired by the movie Clueless. The movie focuses on the main character Cher, and her struggle of who she really is. My box and the items communicate this idea. The outside of the box is spray painted a gold marble to represent her house that is all marble and the only place she can be herself. I have eight items in the box, the first one is a red rose. The colors red represents passion and desire, which is how Cher portrays herself. But, the inside of the rose is white, to represent how she really is at the core, innocent, which the color white represents. The second item is a cracked glass box. Cher is obsessed with her image and is always looking at herself in the mirror. The cracks represent how her image of herself is flawed, she is not who the presents herself to be. The third item is a shopping bag. In the movie, she constantly goes shopping. The words on the bag represent the reasons she goes shopping all the time, she's depressed, alone, and scared. The forth item is a journal with all the adjectives she's described as and what people say about her. On the inside of the book, its filled with adjectives that actually describe her that people would only know if that read further into her. The fifth item is a glitter jar of tears. In the movie she is on the verge of tears a lot but bottles it up. In the situations where she does cry, she still tries to look glamorous and play it off like nothing is wrong. Th water in the jar represents her tears she's holding in and the glitter represents her still trying to look glamorous even when she's crying. The sixth item is her car key, but the buttons are different. In the movie, Cher's father got her a new jeep but didn't teach her how to drive it. The first time she drove she almost got in a car accident, when she tried to tell her dad she needed help he told her to figure it out. So, the buttons on the keys all say help because thats what she really wanted. The seventh item is a candle that is always lit. People are constantly trying to put her down, but she has such a fierce fire that she keeps going forward and her flame is never blown out. The eighth and final item is a mannequin being choked by pearls. Cher tries several times in the movie to escape her lifestyle and branch out from it, but she cant. She always gets dragged back in, that is why the mannequin is being choked by pearls, they're a symbol of her wealthy lifestyle she wants to escape.