300 Word Narrative

The story begins at the end. A red architectural element struggles in a confined, artificial space. Struggles to design itself in the uninspiring world it now finds itself in, trying to remember what it was like in the outside world- when it was young and free, and exploring new things. It has a flashback, and the music changes to a softer and more relaxed melody, to when it first started life as an architectural element going out on its own to see the world. The viewer sees a distant memory of the element squeezing itself out of a brick wall to freedom. It is small and happy, jumping and traveling through what looks like a University campus. It finds different ways to assume shapes that it finds in the environment. The viewer is brought back to the present time where the object is in the fluorescent-lit room, struggling to find a shape to assume and material to feel, and they are flashed back to another time in its life. It is a bit older, and has grown slightly, looking for more interesting forms to mimic, being particularly concerned their materials. It looks at The Louvre, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and other famous and beautiful architectural structures and changes its own material to look like theirs too. The camera switches quickly to the stressed element when it is older in “the room” again where it is twisting and turning and changing materials as it tries desperately to design itself as something worth being an architectural form. The music becomes more intense as the architectural element is obviously becoming more and more anxious about its time running out on making a design decision. Then suddenly the music comes to a climax and the architectural element becomes a box again, just the design that it started as.