Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Macbeth
Tartuffe set design, my first.
This is my first costume design, entitled Alice in Wonderland (Without Insurance). Here is the Mock Turtle Nurse.
Here is the Catepillar Ph.D. who visits Alice in the E.R., not too invested in her care.
This is Alice's surgeon, the Mad Hatter, who really loves his job and Alice is next on his party list.
The primary villain is none other than the hospital business rep, the Queen of Hearts. She is after our uninsured Alice...heads are going to roll..."Off with her health care!"
This is the intern Griffin to the Queen of Hearts. He brings Alice to the Queen's review board to bring her case into question.
Have no fear, Alice, your White Rabbit injury attorney has finally arrived...late, as usual. I made this lawyer a legal fee pirate going after the Almighty Golden Carrot; he rides a Harley, chases ambulances across town, perhaps that's how Alice got in that car wreck in the first place...
This is my first costume design, entitled Alice in Wonderland (Without Insurance). My professor wasn't too sure what assign me and so he directed me to try a Wonderland concept. This version, inspired by our current healthcare issues, doesn't have an actual script, yet.
Here is Alice, a young woman in her 20's who gets into a wreck and is hospitalized, soon thereafter it is learned she has no coverage, and so the adventure through our current American health care system begins. I wanted Alice to take on a new persona, not the cutesy and precocious icon we all know. She's the typical, cutesy, Wonderbread Alice. She's a struggling college student instead of a prim, fanciful, little girl. She does maintain the blue, but aside from her thin gown is naked to this strange world she has wound up in.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Introductions

Hello one and all, I'm Rufus ZaeJoDaeus, currently a student at Utah State University, a Set and Costume Design Major. Drawing, painting, sculpting, telling stories through the arts is one of my greatest passions. Please enjoy and feel free to comment on this evolving portfolio.