When I first started playing with shape inside the model box I felt, quite quickly that I liked the idea of height. I imagined the Duchess and her family as very well of people who lived in a space that showed off money and status.
I liked the idea of using column like structures and started off with the arrangement of one side of a rib cage, curving in at the sides creating a cage like feel to the set. Representing the Duchess's life which is already written out for her by her family and society values.
Moving on from the rid cage, I played around with the arrangement of columns in the model box. I like the idea of depth of field and persecutive and looked at a few different artists.
Salvador Dali
I decided to play more with the idea of persecutive rather than ...... as I wanted to work with the columns to make a space that appears that it expanded on forever at the sides.
Creating the pillar took a long time as it took several different methods of using card and wood to finally get the overall aesthetics I was after. I am looking at the 1930's era of Art Deco and choose a simple design for the shape of the columns.
One of the major themes for me from The Duchess of Malfi is death. I feel as though death was a subject that was taken lightly during the original writing of the play as in 18... people didn't live very long. From here I began looking into macabre artworks with lead me onto thinking about the Caracomb of Paris, a whole labyrinth of tunnels under the city walled by human bones.
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