Katie O

You used the phrase 'photos that never really happen' which brought to mind that whole thing of do we remember something because we were there or do we remember it because we have seen photos of it. And what does it me to alter photos that we do 'remember' to be a more accurate depiction or a less accurate one?

I love the idea of you appropriating your own history – I think that is another great phrase for you to be thinking about as you get going.

The phrase impossible narrative popped up.

 We talked about the crafty-ness aspect. I think the conclusion that we came to was that they won't look crafty when they are really well finished pieces and if you really consider the way the outside and the inside are working together, and making all of them somewhat uniform. OR if you push the crafty-ness to a whole different place, Maggie talked about making the ones that are about birthdays to look like cakes and play up the object-ness of them.

Play with the layering that could happen inside bringing one plane closer to where the viewer looks into the box, obscure the field of vision by putting stuff in there. 

Take advantage of their box-ness, play with weight and size, big says something way different then small.

Think about packaging and look at it.

Content has to drive form (even though we talked about form a lot) Keep playing with the images find what you want to be using and then start sketching out what the box is going to be like.