These images each show a different aspect of one main feeling that helps the viewer get an overall understanding of the person who owns these items in which they are viewing. Each item is unique and extremely colorful but used. While ordered around centerpieces, each and every eraser, glue stick and stormtrooper tells a story of being used but cared for enough to be put on display. These centerpieces, the cupcake, dragon, and sign, each show the quirkiness of the owner but also speaks to their struggle. The cupcake is not real, cracked and chipped from repeated squeezing, it is the physical manifestation of stress the owner feels. Is it on a daily basis or just whenever everything becomes too much?The dragon, a myth brought to life in detailed craftsmanship, posturing over the book it has destroyed. A gorgeous being that pulls at the viewer’s imagination of something a little darker, those horns of the devil, orange colors of fire, a horrified gleam in the eye; is it a beast to be feared or pitied? Is the owner? And the sign, a cute little pun that attempts to glaze over the harsh truth, life IS ruff. The erasers surrounding it are proof of that, dirty and worn away, symbols of every mistake their owner has made. These images, while different in content each pull the viewer into a battle between what they see and what is really there. The optimism the pinks and puns attempt to portray, the pride in who they are, but a closer inspection reveals the exhaustion and desperation underneath. These items are small, trivial but oh so valued, so cared for because they are all the owner has. Everything they rely on just to get through the day captured in these trivial pieces others would have thrown away. What feeling these items, this setting, invoke in the viewer is singular: sympathy.

Or, if the viewer is being rather judgemental about their observation, they might just get the feeling that this setting is a little weird. All of these random objects brought together and what even the fuck is that painting? Was it done badly on purpose? What is it even trying to portray? And who even uses such childish erasers. I mean a cake, really? But yeah, okay, they can admit the dragon is pretty cool, but it could be more refined, the arms look like their melting off. But hey, mundane isn’t exactly a bad thing.