Editorial: When Your Personal Life Gets In The Way Of Work

Project brief based on a magazine article articulating how one’s personal life can impact work. The goal was to create a teetering, offset building, squared and sharp the way office buildings are usually made signaling a sterile space that was not organic. This also is symbolic of the article’s mention of life as a balancing act. Creating different levels to the structure gave further light to this that also signaled danger, drabness and challenge with several spots that visualize an artificial haven often used in professional spaces to reinforce pleasantries found in nature. I wanted the space to mimic the article’s talk of chaos with the pressures of work mirrored in the landscape. Within shark-infested waters in a sea of dangers lingering just below or surrounded by a forest brimming with unknowns work urges people to constantly move up and forward. This is symbolic of the ladders included in both images. Work can become the entire focus of someone’s life, the center of the frame which can stretch and expand while happiness becomes fleeting and weighted. Nothing is ever black & white which is why the piece is littered with grey tones paired with color, to reiterate the article’s call to action that one is not all work and not all play, but a balance in order to dictate how to handle “the curveballs that get thrown our way.”