Anthropology

"It's a lamp with candles burning upside down..." my art teacher threw her hands up triumphantly, "It's Absurd!"

I stood holding a chandelier with glass bottles for shades and burnt candle sticks for bulbs. I had just finished the project the night before. Transforming my dorm room into a workshop, burning candles, hammering iron pieces, filling the hall with epoxy fumes, I don't know how I dodge my RA.

Finally finishing my work of art, I would have described it as: inventive, unique, artistic, Brilliant!

But absurd? As I stood there, I looked again at my chandelier, a bit taken back.

But she was right. I loved the dilapidated pieced together Frankenstein thing...because it was absurd.

Hours of working for Sedexo at the registration lines has prompted me to wonder through my favorite Internet sites. Sifting through Anthropology and Swedish blogs, I find myself looking for some image to inspire.

That's when I found old stadium bulbs used as decor pieces. I kept coming back to them, looking at them neatly arranged on the desk. It's just the creative food I needed. So random. So inventive. So absurd.