Desktop Fireworks by Tomomi Sayuda from uk

‘Desktop Fireworks’ is a digital art piece about how I can deliver some positivity in a stressful work environment. ‘Desktop Fireworks’ looks like an ordinal set of office stationary, at glance. However, it has alternative special hidden functions for surprises.
Having spent time working stressfully, 'Desktop Fireworks' enables you to celebrate. By pressing the big Emergency style button,
A tape cutter, a mug releases an orchestra of light, small desktop drawers play music and bubbles, bookends and small notice boards releases confetti. Those continuous automated entertaining elements create surprises and give personal celebration at the end of stressful days.
Psychological stress affects many people. The causes can be varied. An unexpected delightful surprise can uplift moods and emotions. 'Desktop Fireworks'; is an alternative office stationary.
In Japan, high suicide rates due to work stress are one of the biggest social problems. My father, Kenichi Sayuda committed suicide in 1995 aged 37 because of work related stress. Since then, I have been naturally fascinated by stress relieving solutions. In addition, our daily lives have strong contrast in the day – work- and night -play- traditionally. There are words of ‘Hare’ (sacred) and ‘Ke’(secular), which we often use to describe our cultural contrasts in daily life and unusual days. I would like to represent the strong contrast in the daily life in the office, and opposite exciting elements for entertainments such as fireworks, which is popular in Japan as summer night festival. Those two opposite elements always need to live together, particularly in hard work societies. Therefore I hide my entertainment elements inside practical modern office stationary and create contrasts and surprises to uplift human emotion.