Unpacking — Daily Life: Interactive Slice of Life
Eight rooms. Eight stages of a life. Watch a person grow up through the objects they keep and the things they learn to leave behind.
Unpacking — The Rooms of a Life
Room one: childhood. Stuffed animals on the bed. Poster on the wall. Piggy bank on the dresser. You are too young to understand that some things cannot be packed in a box and carried forward.
Room three: first apartment. The piggy bank is still here, but the poster is gone. A new photo has appeared — someone whose toothbrush now shares your bathroom. You do not know that this will not last, but you are learning.
Room eight: the house. The piggy bank is on a high shelf, nearly invisible among the accumulated objects of a lifetime. The photo has changed again. The stuffed animals are long gone. But the bed is comfortable. The light through the window is warm. And somewhere in the arrangement of furniture and books and things is the shape of a life fully lived.
About This Experience
Unpacking tells its story without words. You learn about breakups from the objects that disappear between moves. You learn about new relationships from the objects that appear. A diploma. A wedding ring. A baby's toy. The narrative is there, in the negative space, in what is kept and what is discarded and what is carried from one room to the next to the next, long after it should have been left behind.