Peanut Friend

The process of this experiment surprised me. There is an amplified connection made with an object when you personify it. You begin to narrate this character's life story in your head like a character in a book or a film. Even though those characters do not exist in real life we form an attachment to their struggles and their achievements. We find ourselves sympathizing with their emotional trials. When this character attachment process is applied to an object, the outcome is no different. We each found something unique about our peanuts and began hypothesizing their entire life stories from there. Once you form that emotional attachment, it is hard to imagine it back as simply an organic matter grown from the earth. I enjoyed giving life to something I otherwise wouldn't have thought twice about cracking and eating.