26.10.09

the book of longing: model

Taking Dylan's suggestion, I decided to play up the underlying structure and extrude these three "shells" from the backdrop. Photos with better lighting to come. My critique is tomorrow/in seven hours.





5 comments:

Temps said...

Am I supposed to want to crawl into those forms, because I do? I want to touch them with my whole body. This is a serious question.

Your typical wire & mesh is working better than ever, and this photo-composite background idea seems very fresh for theater to me.

Do you have concerns? I don't know the play well enough to put it into context yet. But it's beautiful!

Rosalyn said...

Your translucent shapes are fabulous and they are reminding me of an installation I stumbled upon a few years ago when we were researching gallery spaces for Charleston. I can't find the exact installation yet, but Huff Gooden had a fantastic exhibition at the Gibbes using some sort of mesh screens. Their forms aren't as organic but maybe something interesting to look at as far as boundary, threshold, spatiality, etc. Their website is http://www.huffgooden.com/ and the project is Unspoken Spaces.

Great work Kaitlyn. Beautiful.

Unknown said...

girl, you're going places. this model is so informative. the backdrop is really well composed (in terms of color and transparencies of texture). is it seen as a scrim or a solid? also curious about andrew's question...will the actors interact with the forms? i like the idea of those pods as some new form of a wall/furniture if the play ever calls for those things... let us know how the crit goes!

Kaitlyn said...

the shells aren't meant to be played on. i want them to tease. i see them being constructed out of a transparent skin. not scrim, something more stretchy.

maybe i will design furniture based on these pieces...

also this is not for a play. it is a performance of a series of poems and song by leonard cohen set to music by phillip glass. a concert of sorts...

i checked out huff gooden. nice stuff. ros- will you be around during the holidays? maybe we can colaborate on a poetry reading over break.

the crit went really well. my professor liked the model. my drafting was done by hand, so it was a challenge drafting the shapes without a computer. also, theatre drafting is very different from architecture, so i am currently adjusting.

our next project is italian straw hat, which is set in the mid 1800s. it has to be a period piece, so i can't make it all avant garde like i usually do so the results should be interesting.

Temps said...

ah I see how the more stretch will work. They'll look more plastic, less human, sounds good.