pushing the idea of 'gifting'

pushing the idea of gifts:

i decided to create these milk cartons (that act like a piggy bank jar) that has a common emotion that we feel on a day to day basis on the front in the form of a dictionary definition (ie: happy, sad etc) and on the back where the ingredients are listed there are synonyms of the chosen word on the back.

the idea of this is that it is given to someone as a 'gift' when you are a child and throughout your life to place objects that you relate to the emotion on the front and circle the synonym that you can relate to on the back and eventually pass it to your child to review your life.

the problem with this is the form-milk boxes are often used to package things and i need to find a way to SAY SOMETHING. it is not enticing and encouraging someone to WANT to start this and circulate- it needs to be easily understood.

the color of the boxes relate to the emotion on the front as we tend to associate certain colours with certain emotions and looking at a colour stimulates emotion.

these party/loot bags are based on the same idea and creating something that someone can place their own object based on their feelings/experience or perception of the image.

i created the experimentation on the bag using a personal photograph and overlapping that with some text and mixed media:

the bags:

however the same problem arises here too of how it is to be circulated and how does one know what to do with it as soon as it is received.

need to:

-be more specific about the images

-more directed

-how to encourage people to do this

-where does it end

-what is it resolving