This piece of art created by Cornell comes across to me as very dull. There are a lot of dull and darker blues that seem to be sad, almost like the boy in the middle is drowning. There are many thin lines crossing over the box creating small frames, and dangling from one of the strings there is a suspended ring. There are many cubes with pictures of the boy on them with the exception of the turned block in the bottom left corner and the four cubes with a girl on them, the rest of the cubes are identical. There is a class slab towards the bottom of the box and coming up from that there are two posts that look like they almost are floor plans. There are a few random shapes in the box including two circles in the upper two corners, a star, crown the number 5, and the number 2. Besides the blues there are whites surrounded with blacks and grays that set a real dull tone.I was a little confused on the meaning of this piece of art but after a while I felt with the box Cornell was trying to portray pressure put on an individual by their own selves for several common reasons. I feel this way because here you have a lonely looking boy with pictures of him pointed in at him seeming to put pressure on him. With the strings it seems like he was trying to show how pressure really holds people down. The random objects and the women are showing the problems that put pressure on the boy. The girl could have been a loved one the boy was have trouble with. The numbers could the pressure put on him from either money, time, or grades. The star and crown are showing the pressure put on the boy to reach stardom of greatness.
In a simple summary this box has a boy in with all the pressures in his life surrounding him in the form of pictures on cubes.
