Summertime process

Summertime by Charles L. Mee directed by Kim Weild, at the Center for the Arts Theater, Wesleyan University, 2016

Visual Research:

These images have a monochrome quality and the feel of a constructed landscape, which was part our design concept. I explored materials and shapes that eventually came from a skateboard park, suggesting a particular radial energy and movement.

Object Research:

As part of the conceptualization of this play, I worked with the directorial idea of surrealism, particularly Magritte’s paintings in which reality is subverted by visual transgressions. For example, the gaps in the tree trunks informed me of the quality of the environment where the characters of the play inhabit both real and psychological worlds.

Set Ideas:

These rough models were created in order to experiment with the different set-element relationships between 3-D versus 2-D and their juxtaposition to the projections.

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