art! it's fleeting, but you can glue it down.

Yesterday (after sleeping in, which my god is wonderful) I spent several hours in the design studio crafting things out of foamcore. Once I get into the swing of it all, it's actually pretty fun, and it's incredibly satisfying to fit things together & have them work, and to pin and glue and wield sharp exacto knives into unsuspecting paper. Of course I'm making all the choices that makes my model-building harder--I want to use the catwalk, & I'll be hanging things from the grid, which means I need to build both of those instead of leaving them to the imagination. And I want to use the windows in the back wall instead of covering them up with drapes, & since I don't actually have any measurements except those from the groundplan (so I don't know how tall they are or how high off the ground), I had to make it up, & then sneak into the Lee Center during Maureen's tech rehearsal in order to estimate by peeking into the theater from a side-door.
But still. I love having the finished model box, a 1/4" scale empty theater that I could fill with anything I wanted. It's pretty thrilling.

Today I go to read for Inherit the Wind...am still waiting on emails for Alice in Wonderland. I need to know schedules! Oh so much theater. And after that is FOLKLIFE! Never mind that my throat hurts & I sound like a frog-lady & every once in a while I cough like the world is ending. I don't care. Folklife!