Assignment 1 - Dreams

I think my original motivation behind this was to fully make use of the fact that this was going to be a surrealist assignment. Meaning I could actually do all sorts of weird things with the work.

Subsequently my thoughts were drawn upon the notion of madness, what better way to perceive the world than through the eyes of someone who doesn't quite?

Exploring this idea of madness however would mean that I had to come up with a viable script. While surrealist plays themselves have odd motivations (much like surrealist art - although from what i know, it tends to touch also upon ideas of human desire).

In anycase, I believed that I wanted to do a play about a mans journey into madness, while not quite as profound as say, King Lear, I still wanted to set the play to that sort of backdrop. So I forced a plot (a brother wanting to take the place of his younger brother in an asylum and thus must become mad) and got to work on the design.

Since the plot motivation itself was the breakdown of sanity, I decided to use the notion of reality breaking apart. Also, the idea of the blue sky was to show a sort of clarity in madness too. The bars (my rooms window grills, I assure you do not resemble an asylum) were used to represent prison.

I also had to factor in the Dark Comedy aspect, so I took it locally and used Singlish! "Siao ah"

Adding that altogether, we get this final product...

After presenting in class however, several changes need to be made, need to add in more details, gotta add in more bars too.

I did have some alternate ideas though, but they were just cheesy afterthoughts...while I thank my friend for helping with the photo... I couldnt put together something completely great...

But who knows, i might get re-inspired.