Moody Monday: Which Will You Lay To Rest This Year

The call went out a couple of months ago, for Halloween themed items for the arts showcase here at the condo.  I thought about it, I had these small wood "coffins" that I had picked up at an art supply store a couple of years ago, and had struggled with trying to figure out what to do with them.  In the pile of art supplies was the circuit board out of an old computer that died, hard to say how many years ago, and on that were two computer memory cards.  

It was time to get creative. I painted the coffins inside and out. I clipped the corners of the memory cards and made blocks for them to rest on, and glued them in place. I thought about are we burying our hopes and dreams or our failures and nightmares.  Then it hit me, joys or sorrows. Good memories or bad memories. Smiley face and Frowning Face symbols. 

And in life we have a choice of living with our sad memories, or leaving them behind, burying them. We can also bury our joys, our happy memories. (Computer memory cards?)  

Hence, this piece goes in the showcase on Thursday.