How to Build a Forest

Over the summer I was part of a performance/installation piece called "How to Build a Forest" created by Katie Pearl, Lisa D'Amour and Shawn Hall. The performance ran for two weekends in The Kitchen theater in Chelsea. Each day we brought and forest to life and then deconstructed it. People were allowed to step into the forest on stage or they could watch it being created in the audience seats. I was part of a group called Flash Mob were I helped builders and also interacted with the audience by introducing them into the forest or reading lines in the audience rows. It was a wonderful experience and I have not felt the same since. The forest was beautiful and I was incredibly inspired by the hard and meticulous work Shawn Lisa and Katie put out to make it happen. Here is a drawing I just finished inspired by the forest. I would also like to thank everyone I worked with in the production for letting me be a part of the magical experience!

(I plan to rescan my drawings in the future with a better scanner, as this one kind of blurs out half of the picture.)