Grotto
This Project was a collaboration of creative minds between Aiden, a composer, and myself, a designer. This marriage of sound, texture, smell, scripture visual imagery and light, created an abstracted environment that grew from a shared interest of grottos and follies. To create a budget and environmentally friendly landscape a paper language was developed, adding ambiguity surrounding the form: is it an organic or man-made structure? The performance displayed the ruins of a grotto amongst evocative scents, soundscapes and characters producing an intriguing story celebrating nature and all its forms.
Creative Team
Writer / Director: Aiden Porter
Costume: Aiden Porter
Phoebe Smith
Set: Phoebe Smith
Lighting: James Blakeman
Scenics: Amy Lewis, Anna Averof, Irene/Ye Kim, Alex Kay, Alivia Ryder
Production Photos and videos
Opening introduction to the space accompanied by an ambient soundscape
Characters begin to explore and express their relationship with the space
The creature living amongst the grotto peels itself out of the darkness
Characters play as others who interact with the Grotto become enchanted
A moment of earthly delights as characters become completely indoctrinated
A vingette capturing the combination of movement, sound, light and space
Research Images
Imagery
Graphics
Intertitle Calligraphy
Sketching out Ideas
Digital Drawings
Watch my drawing process as a way to sculpt the space
2nd Draft
1st Draft
3rd Draft