Finally an idea came to me a little while before I met up with Luke on Tuesday.

 

We met up on the stone picnic tables outside the Main Uni building by the wharf, even better we were surrounded by trees on such a warm sunny day – perfect picturesque surroundings to tell Luke of my new idea 🙂

 

You may remember that I (for some reason or other) have a thing about trees. Well years ago I watched a home decoration program and they used this most wonderful wallpaper by Cole & Son called “Wood”;

 

 

This wallpaper got me thinking. Plus the fact that Conan suggested that we perform the piece in Studio X, a small studio in the LPAC that has recently been redecorated with black floor and black curtains. A black box. What if we made white trees like the ones on Cole & Son’s wallpaper in Studio X, to create a mini forest – bringing the outside, in. The images and the MP3 players hang from the high branches as like before. White paper mache miniature copies of some of the statues from around Lincoln such as the Arboretum Lion and the Lincoln Imp hiding in between the trees in the wood and some clever use of coloured lighting, maybe even some pretty fairy lights.  A fantasy of Lincoln, the hidden version or if Lincoln was a real forest, a forest of buildings and statues?

 

I truly believe that it can be not only beautiful yet visually enchanting and inspirational. Multi-coloured lights shining onto the white trees and models, giving depth and a fairy-like picture to draw the attention of the audience to influence them to go deeper in the forest and search for more.

 

Luke even added an idea to this, “What if the trees represented the buildings of Lincoln? Like, the base of the Cathedral growing a forming the top of the tree.” Clever boy.

 

Bibliography

 

Website

Cole and Son, (2012) “Contemporary II – Woods” Online: http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13 (accessed: 20th March 2012).