I have been crocheting since my teens and about a year ago I started making these tiny buckets in different colours. At the time, I did not know what to make of them. I was just making one after the other, like meditation. I was also  working on letting emotional things go in my life and it hit me that I could use the buckets for this inner process. 

 

So, I crocheted a few more, framed them and I gave each of the pieces a name. One was called Buckets of Rage, another one Buckets of Resentment and the third was Buckets of Regret. Cheerful, right?
Emotions like that are heavy. They drain you by hijacking energy you could use for moving forward. At some point, one has to let these emotions go. I really wanted to, but it was hard.

 

I needed a symbolic ritual of sorts. I was done carrying all that heaviness around, so I created containers for it outside of myself. I transferred the emotions into tiny crocheted buckets. That's the only space they get to take up from now on, I thought to myself. Nothing more.

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After some time, as I looked at the framed buckets hanging on the wall, they no longer reminded me of rage, resentment or regret. The knot inside had dissolved. 

 

The buckets had truly become a transit hall of sorts and transformed into: Buckets of Relief. 

 

Relief is exactly what we want for Gogo Mushonga and the family. I know what a simple ritual with these tiny buckets can do for a person's experience of relief inside.

 

The experiment now is: can they provide relief in the outside world as well?

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Let's see!

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For the Clean Water & Co. Campaign I am selling custom made Buckets of Relief in relation to specific projects in Zimbabwe. 

 

Here's the vision:

• the sales will bring relief to Gogo Mushonga

• the piece will remind the buyer of the relief they brought another human being

• the buyer can use the buckets as their own transit hall to enhance their own sense of relief whenever they want

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Small things can have a big impact.