Fluxus Box










Pulp Fiction Fluxus box, foam core, paper, glue, black, grey, and red paint, a mirror, a band aid, a toy car, fur, a wallet, flour, plastic wrap and a plastic bag, a trophy, a bible, a cigar, cotton, and red lipstick, 16" x 12" x 5"

This project was inspired by the iconic movie Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. I chose this movie because it was one of the first "adult" movies that I was allowed to watch growing up, and because I love stories with action and violence. I made the box to resemble the suit case that Jules and Vincent are carrying for many scenes, except I designed it to not open like the traditional suitcase would. On the inside of the lid, I used a dirty gold piece of paper to represent the glowing light that comes out of the suitcase every time a character opens it. On top of that paper is a circular mirror with numbers out of order, meant to represent how the sequence of the movie is broken up and out of order.

Each object in the box is meant to represent an aspect of the movie, but not too literally. The toy car is representative of Vincent's time in Amsterdam that he refers to in the earlier scenes. The cleaning trophy refers to a pun that Mr. Wolfe makes to Jules and Vincent after they clean their car of blood and brain fragments. The fur covered wallet is meant to represent the last scene in the movie, where Vincent and Jules have to deal with a robbery at the dinner they were in. The next reference is the bag of flour, which is meant to be the bag of heroin that Vincent caries with him. The plastic bag full cotton and tobacco is made to represent a disassembled cigarette. It also contains red lipstick at the very top of the bag. Finally, the last item in the box is a small bible with graphic novel like drawings throughout it. In the middle of the bible is an excerpt from Ezekiel 25:17, which Jules refers to multiple times in the movie. 

My objects can relate to each other in many ways since they are stemmed from the same inspiration. However, they also can be tied together by another universal theme: red. Each object in the box contains some kind of red on it or within it to ever further establish their unity within the box. 



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