Confetti
This is a detail piece I wrote for my junior year English class. The assignment was to be given an object from a partner and to use that object to convey an interpretive and obscure purpose. Can you guess the purpose of my piece?
The room was filled with bright morning sunlight, illuminating the tiny vibrant pieces of tissue paper falling through space. The confetti continuously sprinkled down, catching in the air, and frolicking its way to the floor. All through the day, confetti softly rained down. By nightfall, the ground was covered with the delicate debris. At dawn, a change could be sensed. The falling confetti was no longer leisurely nor light. The new kind had a purpose, along with a thicker texture, and with little leeway it streamed down, oppressing the colorful mosaic underneath. Glimpses of vibrant colors could still be seen, barely visible. At sunset, crimson and orange hues permeated the room, staining the falling confetti vermilion. By nightfall it was as if the floor was covered in bloody snow, and the room was cold.
At long last, morning came once more, a weak sunlight spreading across the motley assortment of colors. But the confetti that was now drifting down was once again small, vibrant, and sheer. Slowly, the red ground soaked below, making way for the new layer of the clean confetti. It was a new day.
Purpose: Throughout the world's history, native peoples have been taken advantage of, conquered/imperialized, and then oppressed by the intruders. Many times, there were revolutions and wars to overthrow the foreign establishment and regain independence. The first type of confetti represents the native/indigenous peoples, living in peace with their world. The coarser confetti symbolizes the foreigners who aggressively take over what was never their's. The sunset and blood-colored confetti is the bloodshed from war. Finally, the new morning (technically the third morning in the piece) is the rebuilding and celebration of independence and freedom.
