The Box and the Tree: A Representation of a Feminist Viewpoint of the World

Abstract

The accompanying paper arose out of a project I did for a class on Feminism and Postmodernism. Instead of writing a traditional academic paper and presenting it at our final class, I created a piñata in the shape of a box. The outside of the piñata contains photographs, magazine cut-outs, etc. that represent the box I have felt stuck to/in. It is the me that I want to deconstruct. The inside of the box contains similar memorabilia, but of a different genre. It includes aspects of my self that I want to reconstruct and nurture. During my class presentation, the class helped me break the box and reconstruct my self onto the flattened box, reformed in the shape of a tree. The trunk of the tree is the stick used to break the box. This paper is a theoretical abstraction from the concrete presentation of my piñata project.