My action words were CHIP and ROTATE. I will admit as the list was read aloud I really desired flying and fire so I could take a photo of a burning roll of toilet paper flying through the air. As I tried to think of how to represent my words I went through everything from literal interpretation such as chipping off an ice block to rotating the arms on a clock.
In the end I decided to display rotation through all 6 faces of a rubix cube. This is not a typical everyday item for most but it is for me. This is not from my supremely awesome intellect where I can solve it in 4 minutes, but from getting frustrated and using it as a paper weight on my office desk after I solved just the one side.
I believed the rubix cube to be unseen for the most part, outside of the short episodes of its existence where people attempt to solve the riddle, these cubes usually sit on shelves with only a limited portion facing the occupants of a room.
As for documentation, I originally contemplated a short video clip of the cube rotating across the desk. However, I decided against this when I felt it would look too much like 'rolling' and my lack of camera stand resulted in a one-handed video camera with shaky footage that made me slightly nauseous to watch. The still camera images are much like how it is presented in the world.
Lastly, I attempted to sort of interpret the cube. I left the solved, orange side of the cube the largest and brightest side in the picture with a blank background to offset it. This orange sides represents our never ending desire to solve and do everything perfectly in life, and instead we fail to see the jumble that life really is and that this jumble is what makes it life in the first place. The other 5 sides that I darkened out are the 'jumble' of life and darkened; despite how they maintain positions in front of the orange side, they are not the focus of the life journey/audience.

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