So last week I decided on some rather abstract items to fit in my time capsule. While they were not bad ideas, I felt it was a little forced. And then it hit me. So this week I am completely changing my time capsule.
My mom was given a leftover set of miniDV cassette tapes that belonged to my father before he died ranging between 1997-2007 that was found in an apartment we used to live in that got tore down. She gave these tapes to me in her recent visit to NYC and I am currently digitizing them.
So my three new items for the time capsule is a tape from July 10 1997, a tape from July 18 1997, a tape from August 8 2000, a tape from March 15 2002 and a camcorder that I thrifted to watch the tapes.
I thought for a while on how I would go about redesigning a box for it and since I got trained at the MakerSpace I scrolled through thingiverse for a while looking at different designs for tape holders and ones that were even possibly interactive in a different way. However, they all didn't seem to fit the purpose it required functionally and more importantly it felt like it took away from the emotional value of the items.
So at the end of the day, and I may lose points for this, but I decided to keep the box it came in and add a sticker to it (which I am still reluctant about because it feels like I am tarnishing it). The sticker was the only thing that was close to fitting for me because it represented the joy I felt from being able to learn more about my father and a life I had lost but at the same time brought up a lot of subconsciously repressed emotions and memories. The conflict of these two extremes is one that I am glad I became aware of through the process of working on this project as it signifies more internal work needs to be done to truly grow.