A RED DREAM

Theater Concept Design Project
2023
Photoshop, Procreate, and TouchDesigner

INTRODUCTION:

This project is based on a very famous Chinese literature called "The Stone Story" It is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Within this book, the rise and fall of a family are depicted. However, through the portrayal of a large cast of characters and highly detailed descriptions, the themes and culturally relevant information conveyed in this book remain incompletely analyzed till this day. The work is extremely mysterious——There are still many questions about its author, background, and whether it has been modified. In this piece, there are twelve core female characters, representing not only individuals but also embodying soul, emotion, and compressing numerous elements. I have utilized this aspect to concretize some of their character cores. This is a concept design filled with fantasy, based on Dream of the Red Chamber, but it is not an expression of the literary work. Instead, it serves as the foundational logic for my creation, rather than the creative goal itself.

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CONCEPT COLLAGE:

Concept collage can better help me understand the fixed elements I've extracted from this vast work. I don't want to stick to any particular Chinese style or express the content of the book and its grand worldview. I feel that thinking from a third perspective, extracting one-thousandth of its emotional value and character features, and naming them with architecture, is a unique language structure for generative art. Applying this to projection design involves many emotional resonances that cannot be understood from an artistic perspective. Through these unique textures and fine art elements, I hope to convey a predominant sense of 'emptiness' or 'void'.