What is a Vessel?

The Vessel Project was to design and build a vessel that holds something of special meaning. The object was to be small and have a connection, memory, or symbolism that is personally important.

                                   

After choosing the object, a wooden vessel was to be constructed to hold it.  The vessel was to be cut from a block of wood with only a bandsaw. The block was formed by plying (gluing) together thin sections of wood. Negative space, lids, side walls, and other parts of the vessel were to be subtractively formed from the block. The depth of the container was to be determined by how many wood sections the design required to be glued together and the overall size of the object.

                                     

Vessel Definition

The vessel to hold the object could take on a variety of forms. The following definitions were used for the project to describe these forms.

                                   

Vessel:  a hollow or concave utensil for holding something

  

Box:  a rectilinear form

  

Bowl:  a curvilinear form

  

Container: a holder of something

  

 Thing(s): an entity, idea, or quality perceived, known, or thought to have its own existence.  The real or concrete substance of an entity existing in space and time, an inanimate object.