CPS Week 4 - Make with Place

Theme
This week's theme is 'Make with Place'. In a nutshell, the place itself must define its purpose and serve the story, and "one place can embody an entire story" - Max.

Context
We come across many such places in our everyday life where we turn into a different self (or true self), and literally, let our guards down, or do not worry about what's going to happen the next moment, or just flush the 'what if...' thoughts. Here, I try to tell the story of a place where anything could happen, yes anything!

Method
It is quite a challenge to portray the story of a place in a limited 'screen resolution'. I thought maybe I should give my composition skills a shot and came up with an idea. I took the 'coffee cup' as a character because it is one of the most important pieces in almost everyone's life, many start the day with it. In this piece, I put the cup inside the toilet (not in the commode of course!), to tell the story from the character's perspective along with a place that is also equally important in our everyday life, together it seems like they both are on the same boat but at the opposite ends.

Response
I bought a coffee from a cafe in the university campus, drank the whole thing, and placed it in the toilet, clicked a photograph with my phone camera. Now, by looking at the photograph, I realised, not only it is interesting to look at but also tells the story of 'a habit', and how people discriminate 'consumables' and 'discard-ables'.