After a lot of brainstorming on where should I focus my box of uncertainties as space and art together were huge topics, as on advice from my tutor David, I decided to focus my energy on finding areas where art and space interlap. While thinking about these things I decided to think about more things that I am uncertain about. Such as

Uncertainty about thrift shopping? Is it as sustainable as it is advertised? Or is it just as harmful and mis-leading as fast fashion.

After a lot of beneficial feedback from my tutor, it was clear that it was important for us to arrive at the conclusion of what our uncertainty should be by ourselves. The feedback I received made me pin point as to what is my final uncertainity, which I chose as the effect of capitalism on consumers of art, shopping and culture. As I felt the common thing in between thoughts for art and thrift shopping was how purchasing of both are interconnected. Capitalism has made art into a commodity to be sold, as well as how these items have become a way to distract masses from social conflict and anything which requires them to focus deeper. Consumerism refers to the tendency of people living in a capitalist economy to life in excess and wasteful over consumption. Thus this is where I arrived with my box of uncertainties. Which I chose to represent via a paper shopping bag.

A shopping bag.

A paper shopping bag which screams eco-friendlyness, sustainability, but at the same time also screams consumerism, elistism, identity.

A shopping bag, a means to end product but in the end product, same as anyone in the world, but what is the factor that makes it different?

A shopping bag, represents my box of uncertainties very well, as one can not be sure of what goes in the bag or what is in the bag, the only thing that makes the bag different is it’s print, where its from, what it represents?