The project pitch session for our installation project was
very helpful, in that the ideas proposed by Shannon and other classmates have
helped give the concept a more solidified shape. After further discussion with
my Co-Director, Lizzie Warfield, and considering the ideas from class time, we’ve
made some more limiting and expanding decisions.
We’re mainly in need of a solid amount of mirrors, and we’ve
been doing some inventory for that; otherwise we should be ready for the other
aspects. We’ve decided to stick to fire and mirrors, as those alone can be
taken in so many different and fascinating directions. We’ll portray fire with
laptop screens and perhaps projectors as well, with tame fireplace shots and
wild blazes of things burning; with explosions and stars shining into the
night; with candles, with matches.
We will also have real candles there, and we’ll aim to make
a real fire as well. The general plan is to set up a lot of mirrors with
laptops and candles in a multitude of ways along the side alley of the
building, and as people walk through our contraption to get to the backyard,
they’ll find themselves amid an intensely infinite reflection of Time and Light
amid the dark of night.
The audience will have the opportunity to write something
down on a piece of paper; the prompt will allow for anything, with the guiding
subjectors of fire and reflection. As the people prepare to leave our
contraption of mirrors and flame, we will read the papers aloud at random,
keeping anonymity, and burn the paper after it’s read.
We mainly just need to crack down on getting lots of
mirrors. Derek will be able to play some really neat and atmospheric
soundscape/ambient freestyle music, and the rest of us will guide the travelers
through, reciting poetry of our own or of our own selection. It will be a vivid
and otherworldly experience, as we ponder by our flames and reflections before
autumn’s ending and winter’s entrance.
