As indicated at the beginning of this report I have always been fascinated with religion and because of this class I have thought more about the religious symbolic object. Watching how people interact and either develop interest or not in the final project was a good learning experience. I learned that when I have an idea that I find to be simple and understandable it does not mean that everyone else understands it.

The most satisfying experience of this project was watching people interact with the objects that I had created. Even the objects that were left were reused and interacted with again by other people. The irony behind this is that the object actually lost its intended meaning as it progressed through its life cycle, but gained new ones. For example, the objects started off elevated in a container giving it value, importance, and recognition. Then it was removed and placed into the hands of the individual who created something of meaning and values to the individual pieces. From that point the object was either left or taken. This is still a point of mystery for me. The great thing was that the left objects were reused and people applied their own meaning or ideas to the objects. I recalled listening in on someone saying that these objects were some form of confused Legos and later saw a woman make a bracelet from the objects and put it on her arm. The meaning that was found in this project was that an object with meaning could be discarded and once again elevated to a different state than that of the original. This is something that we are all familiar with and can relate to in some way or another. I learned a lot and gained more understanding from the experience of watching an object change meaning in going from being one man's trash to and man's treasure (and back again).

— Pablo Wenceslao