Paper Elephant

Our environment shapes our ideas, our dreams, and even our happiness, an unknown emotion without its eternal companions: expectations, pressure, and limitations. But how do we rediscover it? Or more importantly, how do we rediscover ourselves to uncover happiness without its companions? Perhaps it will be useful to meet the elephant. A mixed media piece that explores happiness through the lens of three generations. Happiness — a complex emotion that requires a complex visual language to resemble the abstractness with which it is perceived. Happiness, the elephant in the room of emotions. We know when it is absent but rarely pay attention to it when it is present. This short film invites the audience to ponder how their surroundings, expectations, and personal limitations shape their understanding of happiness. By depicting happiness as an elephant, the project visualises an elusive concept in a way that resonates universally.