advancess on concept

i wanted an object to take out into the public and also share on a website with the peope i travelled the route with that represents what i am going for. i first decided that i just simply wanted to make the linears into a 3d shape. if you think about the traditional map it is usually displayed as a 2d image. the problem with this is that we only focus on the paths we walk on instead of the spaces we are inhabiting moving and talking in.

so the cushions represent the routes. i want the cusions to remind people of childrens soft toys and home cumforts. i think it correlates with the way we are comforted by knowing where we are going and the routes we travel daily. but then to juxtapose the feelin of comfort and stability i used a flexible material and then suspended the object which them gives off an opposite message. i'm not trying to convey a message across or tell people what it means. becuase the object doesn't specifically mean anything, it is meant to make people question or be intreaged in the notion of how society expects us to live/ pushes us down certain pathways without questioning why certain guidelines are there. i do not want to force an opinon apon someone, but by simply having an unbiased conversation with them about their lives it makes them think about it.

some messages that might be interpretted:

• fabric - childrens soft toys
• colour- beise, old peoples aneraks. reminds me of 'safe' stages of life. 
• suspended and flexible material- uncertainty, flexibility in arraning of objects. looks over accuracy.