Vessel Project: word list and purpose

Statement of purpose

The object I chose for my vessel was a key. Not simply any key but on that contained a memory from a happier time. In the past few year my family has hit hard times. The economy has not been kind to our finances. The key was from a vacation we had taken together before our money situation had gone south. I also times out that it was the first trip we had taken after my father had survived his cancer surgery. The vacation was not too extravagant. We simply went to Eureka Springs Arkansas and stayed in an old hotel and enjoyed the small town together. It was called the Crescent Hotel which was one of the factors that played in my design. The overall shape was a keyhole with a rectangle compartment inside. The top portion of the keyhole’s inside was another box. This smaller box was shaped as a crescent. I chose walnut wood to give it a more aged look given that the hotel was built in the 1800s. Key would be placed in the rectangle portion. The hidden box was to represent another element of the hotel. The hotel was originally a hospital with a dark past. This is something they hype up now and promote it as a haunted hotel. The hidden box is to add an element of unknown just like the supernatural aspect of the hotel.       

Word list:

Crescent

Key

Keyhole

Door

Antic

Ovel

Heavy

Haunted

1886

Mystery

Ghost