Mental Passageway, Installation View.
This installation project was a response and adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story, Kaleidoscope. This was a group project, in which each member designs an 'asset' for a proposed film outcome.
Our adaptation of Kaleidoscope :
This story begins with a cargo ship crew being taken out by the monopoly company ISO (Intergalactic Space Organisation). This crew is no longer needed as part of their operation, as they hold incriminating evidence against ISO on board. The erasure caused by a large ISO robot leads to an explosion, sending the crew out amongst the galaxy.
Floating helplessly.
Due to the fatal explosion the crews space suits suffer immense damage, and so do they. The impact causes a nervous system overload, sending the crew into a mental kaleidoscopic space. They slowly face decay as they journey to their death.
We have chosen to gear this story towards rainbows, bright saturated colours, flowing, organic shape language, liquids, and weird material forms. This is all mixed in with a medieval knight twist. Showing the true characters of these galaxy explorers; both good and bad. Filled with scientific phenomena, like magnetic fields, and of course kaleidoscopes.
Maci Libby and I teamed up to create the 'Mental Passageway' the crew fall into as they die. We wanted to try create this physically. The passageway glows with multicoloured lights. Layers of soft material surround and lead towards the end of the tunnel. It is a liquified kaleidoscope. Falling apart as the mind does too.
Maci Libby-Allison, Jackson Edgar, Elise McIntosh, Taylor Wong
(Semester 1, 2024 - Designing Science Fiction)
