This project explores the stage model as an artistic language in its own right. Through light, shadow, void, material and spatial composition, model-making becomes a form of three-dimensional drawing and scenographic thinking. Inspired by Taoist philosophy and the movement aesthetics of Kunqu opera, the project investigates relationships between emptiness and presence, stillness and movement, nature and human perception. The model is not simply a miniature of a future stage, but a space for thinking through matter.
 

Credits: Storytelling and Scenography by Jing Wang Thomas, Presented at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, 28th -29th June 2012