The Dysfunctional Relationships within my Dolls House.
Each room and their concept and meaning.
Girl Room –
A room with a girl and someone
laying on the floor, dark. The person on the floor is dead.
While the girl is sitting brushing her hair smiling but with wide eyes, holding
a knife in the other hand. An Obsessive Relationship,
the room will be covered in writing everywhere. The woman is possessive, and
killed her partner for love.
Prom
Night –
A tall
guy hitting the ceiling constantly to show it’s too loud in the room
above. A guy
next to him swaying back and forth. Leads
everywhere. TV's with party hats on. The TVs with leads is a symbol
for connections. Leads are connecting and they are a pair. TV’s showing static,
meaning it has become a Stale
Relationship and it’s boring. Prom
night is supposed to be a big deal, so this couple are trying to have theirs in
peace, with the taller one trying too hard to make everything perfect, to
revive this boring rut they're stuck in.
Cat Lady –
Dead cats everywhere, hanging
from the ceiling, piles and piles of them all around the lady in the middle. She is pushing a pram with dead
cats in over and over. Relevance and idea: A
relationship between an owner and its pet, unlike any other. This room is about
a Smothering Relationship. How
the lady wants to preserve her love for these cats so she smothers
them with too much love thus resulting in their death. She forces
these wild animals to become pets, domesticates them. They should be
free to roam the wild. The cats are hung up, to show
memories and special moments she had, just as we would with photos in frames.
Capturing the special times we've had and hanging them up on the wall.
Half Pig Guy – Bathroom -
Guy bathing in a half cut pig,
blood. Shaving his legs. Wanting to shave to seem 'perfect' for the
partner he could have. The pig is a symbol for that men often get called 'pigs'
in life, being messy or rude in one way or another. He is shaving his legs to
impress, thus not being himself. The pig is his real self-reflection. A Vein Relationship.
Shocking Room –
Two people in electric chairs
that cannot move, sitting, waiting to get shocked. This room has the idea that if
one person in a Relationship gets hurt then they both do in some way. How Relationships
are a game. They’re both trapped in a Painful Relationship. They're
connected by leads symbolising 'heart strings'. Both are upset and trapped, 1
cannot be happy because it would simply drag the other down with it. If one
gets hurt, they both do.
Guy and
the Flower – Kitchen -
Providing
food/nurture for the flower to grow healthy, just like a mother bird would to
its young. - A Nurturing
and Dependent Relationship. The guy is caring for this flower. The
flower is dependent on the guy for food (like baby and mother).
Butchers Room
–
How when you’re
stuck in an Exhausting Relationship
that’s in a constant loop of the same problems. Every time you try to end it,
or remedy the situation it just ends up full circle. The horse is a symbol for
the dominant and powerful one in the relationship.
Dining Room –
Another Stale Relationship. Using food as
comfort. One is dominant over the other showing this by making him much larger.
The table is long showing the separation; also the food they’re eating is
showing separation as well as the candle in the middle. Eating in silence.
The Small Gun
Room –
Two small people
arguing, ‘firing cheap shots’ at each other to upset one another. Not realising
the hurt they are causing to the people around them.
