At this moment I am writing this mostly out of a desire to not be starting blankly at my sketchbook any more. I am one month in to our first project of the semester and illustrations need a-doin'. We've kicked off the first semester (of my 2nd year at Edinburgh college of art) with the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten; a tale of murder, small minded-ness and ambition set against the backdrop of a quaint fishing borough (sounds like home -_- ). For the first time we have been tasked with creating the set deign as well as costume. The brief allows for a lot of style elements I love - ganseys, deconstructed woodwork, rough textures, and dramatic lighting.
The main characters: the bipolar protagonist (tragic figure or antihero?) Peter Grimes and his love interest, the gentle hearted Ellen
I wanted to evoke the spirit of a shipwreck on the stage, and protruding from it, as the literal aftermath of the storm and as a metaphor for the violent destruction of the life Grimes tries to build.
The design follows the crashing waves and besting storms evoked in the music and the libretto, with flowing lines and sharp angles.
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