The average American consumes 300 eggs and 60 pounds of chicken per year. Whether you like it or not, it is a fact that you can see chicken in every takeout meal that you order to. It's all thanks to modern farming techniques, so we can eat fast food - yes, a chick can go from egg to maturity in as little as 21 days! Wait...21 days? yes, this number is still shortening!
Why so fast? Because some people might not even be able to do a 10-minute wait for their meal, like me! So I made this bag to hold the original and most important starting point of the takeaway session - the eggs. I used reed and woven metal shelves as a metaphor for the chicken coop. And, of course, the McDonald's carrier and tag.
Grab it! Just like last week when I ordered food and the impatient waiter at the restaurant, in response to my urging, said, "Go to a chicken farm and get an egg and raise it yourself, it's faster that way!"
Process
Inspiration
Assignment coming from The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Le Guin argues that the first tool of humans was not a weapon, but a container—a carrier bag. She uses the metaphor of the carrier bag to emphasize the importance of communal, nurturing, and gathering activities as fundamental to human survival. Unlike the hero's journey, which focuses on individual achievements and conquests, she suggests that the carrier bag narrative emphasizes cooperation, sustenance, and the sharing of resources for the benefit of the community.
I live in a house where my roommate has a chicken as a pet, so I used the straw I bought from Saver as a material, and used the material itself to intertwine with each other in a weaving method to create a surface to enclose the space. In response to the theory, my Chicken bag is more like a metaphor of a container for the modern fast food economy.
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