One of the things that
characterize humanity is the perception of our own feelings. They help us give
new colors to what we see in life, but they can also make us lose track. All
emotions are real and valid, including those considered socially ugly or
inappropriate. Welcoming these feelings helps us to understand how we interpret
life, even if subconsciously. Getting in touch with our emotions helps us
understand the past and look better into the future. By learning to get in
touch with our impulses, we can better understand ourselves and live more fully
and happily.
Anger is a powerful feeling. It
often pushes us forward and gives us the courage to do what we have long
wanted. But it is also a destructive feeling, which can hurt us and others around
us. Embracing anger can give us the strength to overcome obstacles and help us
understand our frustrations, failures, and why things offend us. But plunging
into anger can also hurt the social, professional, and family constructs that
we make throughout life.
The Angry Vase proposes to give
physical form to anger. It is an invitation to reflect on how we deal with this
feeling, how we end up hurting ourselves and hurting those close to us in this
process. The design proposal is for the object to be seen, touched, and felt.
Through tactile perception, we can feel on the skin how the thorns of anger
hurt, pierce, bother. And in a moment of rage, that touch can even help control
it, as we see and touch its aggressiveness.
Among the various spines of the
vase one can be removed. In your hand, you can better analyze its shape and
notice that there is also an internal spine in addition to the external spiny
protrusion. The thorn protects us from outside and threatens the outside, but
it also pokes inside and hurts ourselves. When removing this thorn, the access
created by it allows the object to be used as a vase. The user can then place a
flower or a dry plant that will emerge from the thorns. All, to show that that
anger, when accepted and processed, can also become the receptacle for
something more beautiful.
The Angry Vase was created
during the 2020 quarantine, at a time when I desperately needed to get in touch
with my feelings in order to be able to heal them.
