Scenic Designer's Sketchbook: November 2008

The Barber of Seville - Final Model

Final Model for The Barber of Seville for Vicki Davis's Scene Design 1 Class.

Photos of Exterior of Dr. Bartolo's, early morning to morning:

Photos of Interior of Dr. Bartolo's:

(See previous rough model here)

Labels: projects

Clive Wearing - The Man without Memory

Painted Renderings for a play about Clive Wearing. For Vicki Davis's Scene Design 1 Class.

First, about Clive Wearing:

In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—a herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only seconds—the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded. New events and experiences were effaced almost instantly. As his wife, Deborah, wrote in her 2005 memoir, “Forever Today”:
His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired. But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a blink. Indeed, if he did blink, his eyelids parted to reveal a new scene. The view before the blink was utterly forgotten. Each blink, each glance away and back, brought him an entirely new view. I tried to imagine how it was for him. . . . Something akin to a film with bad continuity, the glass half empty, then full, the cigarette suddenly longer, the actor’s hair now tousled, now smooth. But this was real life, a room changing in ways that were physically impossible.

In addition to this inability to preserve new memories, Clive had a retrograde amnesia, a deletion of virtually his entire past. (from The New Yorker)