On the Ontology and Afterlife of the Scenic Model
For scenic designers, the building of a scenic model is not merely a component of one’s practice—it is an act of creation. Handcrafted from pieces of this and that, the model’s purpose is to imagine whole worlds in miniature that in turn inspire fantasies and daydreams. But when this purpose is ignored, and the model is regarded as simply a tool for communication, it is seen as having outlived its usefulness and discarded. The life of the scenic model, like any life spent in the service of art, is worthy of more consideration. We must imagine for it a better afterlife.
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