julieworks's posterous

The eldest form of satisfaction and feeling of control is based in the first years of our existence. Destroying things, having the power to choose whether an object is to be destroyed or stay intact comes to us during early age of childhood.
Money boxes have been around for ages, in many different shapes, materials and sizes, but the approach towards them can be very individual. For some it’s a treasured little object, a cute pig or box that takes care of all your spare change, for others a merely functional object, due to lack of an bank account, or the feeling of not needing one, and some just by it for the pleasure of knowing that you can destroy it when you need the money.
The last one fascinates me. It’s not a common occurrence, but the playfulness and many a funny option you can have with something you’re allowed to destroy, is an amusing area of research, and development.
To be able to please instincts of destruction, and yet have an functional or conceptual object, it will be necessary for me to look into psychology, based on humans emotions towards destruction, and towards futuristic materials, that might come to my advantage.

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