"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."
-Henry David Thoreau
I started out this process with the quotation. I then discovered an object I found very appropriate, on a couple of different levels. My object is a black ceramic piece that I created a few years ago; I don't remember exactly how many. I do remember, however, being very depressed at that time in my life. I would sit at the potter's wheel staring into my clay pieces as if they promised escape. I feel like this piece is particularly symbolic of that, in both its color and general composition. It represents my own sorrows tended to, in a way. It was birthed of a regretful depression. I think the color of it seems blunt and lacking nuance, at first sight, but near the final shot, you can start to see the cracks in its varnish. The hole that leads into the main chamber of this ceramic piece is small, yet that makes its hollowness nonetheless. I suppose the connection between my quotation and my video is a rather personal one, but I don't think this makes it nonexistent. I think it represents what can happen if you nourish your sorrows and regrets, in a healthy way. It causes one to appreciate what is perhaps new and equally impactful, without discrediting the beauty of past sorrowful experiences. And I believe my video not only subjectively represents this idea, but does so in an objective manner as well.
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