current work in progress

A chandelier is always an object that I associated with the upper class. I saw them in many homes growing up, and it became one of those things I viewed as unattainable. I also wanted to comment on the idea that poor people can’t have luxury or leisure. Some people also genuinely feel that poor people can’t complain about their socioeconomic status if they spend their money on anything luxurious. And that word is relative anyway because luxury to me is an uber to work instead of an hour on the train. I wanted to give myself this unattainable luxury by making it. This piece is about the way we perceive luxury based on our socioeconomic class. Also, about how materials are used as a form of assimilation into the American’s idea of wealth and the values we then give to these materials. Lastly, a resistance to the thought that poor people can’t have the luxury.