Week 9 - Joey NM - The Net of Dreams

I miss being a kid, and I could sit and wonder all of the time. Yet, I am grateful for the gift of hindsight and age to afford, do, and buy the things I want because of my ability to mobilize quickly. 

Lately, I've been amazed at people's ingenuity in creating beautiful creations out of ordinary or straightforward things. 

When I initially saw this image, it was as if I were looking from a bird's eye view onto the stage. I thought it was a large sheet with teacup lights installed into a transparent netting or sheet. (It also didn't help that the window was a bit dirty). When I looked closer, I realized that regular string lights were meticulously strung in parallel rows to appear like a sheet. Perhaps it's my overactive imagination or my appreciation of dream interpretation from my nightly sleep. Still, this image looks like a dream net or a stage set to make the scene aetherial. 

If I had the money or the extra time, I'd play with filling the space with fog. I imagine the scene would appear more dreamlike. Or, perhaps If I carefully laid out sheets of a mirror or mirror-like material and lit the area in blues, from the sides and some from the diagonals, it could become nebulous. 

Again, I think a good artist allows himself to sit and wonder. Yet, he has to put imagination and motivation into action. Although I would love to sit in one place longer than the other, we can't heavily exist in one extreme all of the time. Given this is still real life, the beauty of scene design is that you can be in real life and still be in the dream or wander through the nebula with the proper stage setup.