Saturday, December 06, 2014
Lose and Find Yourself Inside This Glowing Light Labyrinth
The Creators Project: AMAZE is a glowing geometric maze that comes alive at night through colorful and disorienting light projections. The newest project from Spanish artist and architect, Marcos Zotes, the labyrinth made its debut in October at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto.
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This is really pretty. I like how, even though it's supposed to be about exploring getting lost and tight spaces, it is made with clearish plastic, so people with claustrophobia are less likely to have issues, which makes it much more accessible to everyone. It's also really cool how this seems like it would be very easy to transport this installation to other places, as it is made of a skeleton of scaffolding and fabric.
Scaffolding and textaline... what will they think of next? Is it me or do the spectators in this piece look bored? This project suffers from focusing too much on one element, the projected media, and forgetting that good design pays close attention to all the elements that make it up and one element doesn't suffer for another. We run into this sometimes when we add projection surfaces willy-nilly after the fact to a set so media has something to project on. Of course media should be just as valuable a part of a production design as scenery, but the two have to speak to one another and have all the details of that conversation worked out well in advance or the projection surfaces always look to me like an afterthought. The Nina Variations was a good example of how this can happen, and I think Glass Menagerie was a good example of how thoughtful and well planned symmetry between scenery and media can work.
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