Mission Accomplished bava.studio

Feeling pretty good right now. A friend of mine in Trento, Andrea, passed along a message from the Trento Strano group somewhere on WhatsApp—or whereever it is Italians are Italian together online.

I had told Andrea, and also mentioned the idea on this blog, that the Creepshow diorama was very much about having someone see this window and just be like WTF? The fact Samuel gets the larger sense of story and the bizarreness of a contextless scene from Creepshow on a back street of Trento is a beautiful thing.

And we’re not stopping there, we have accomplished the mission of the first WTF recorded and now we can say goodbye to “Something to Tide You Over” and get ready for “Come and Play with Us,”  a diorama that has definitely developed over the past two weeks after a conversation with MBS. That dude is ridiculous, and I believe the twins might be projected in this space using a short throw projector on plexiglass from behind. D’Arcy Norman had mentioned the idea of a projector last year for the diorama , but I couldn’t imagine it—the space seemed to small. I was thinking about it all wrong, if you can project from a short distance behind the diorama it opens up all kinds of possibilities. In fact, after telling Tim what we had discussed he demonstrated how easy it is to use tools like Canva to remove the background of a video image.

So these two projected on plexiglass from behind, and we slant the ceiling down, the floor up and start to really dial in a sense of depth and perspective. The images of the hallway also adds depth, then we have to figure out how to map the carpet to match that optical illusion. It’s all very complicated, a lot of ins and outs.

For that to happen, however, we have to sadly say goodbye to Creepshow. Luckily I’ll have all the pieces (we even kept the sand), so we can pull this one out of the cap at any point.

I had fun taking it apart cause I was working with my fellow culture geek Miles, and he hadn’t seen the front part of the space finished, and I think he was blown away. He sees the vision and can dig it, that’s a connection with my kid I deeply appreciate. Culture is wild and creates the opportunity for celebration and critique all at once. So mission truly accomplished on the very small scale this project is aspiring to.

I look forward to what’s next, but today was a moment where the long, at times dark, journey to the light of creative joy found a vista. Rock, not rot!