Visual Explorations of Character

In Blood/Sailing I play a child caught on the wrong end of an adolescent love triangle with catastrophic consequences.  She's a child trying to do right, go by unscathed, while still trying to find a way to make a human connection when she isn't sure how to begin. She's an outsider in an outside world, full of questions that seem to have answers that are too monumental to comprehend. She just has to survive. She has to.

Blood/Sailing is a show all about stunning visual communication. (We use the word "stunning" a lot because, trust me, it is.) Because of the lack of dialogue, I found that exploring character in my standard way (using a lot of words - writing long and involved back-stories, analyzing every moment and so on) wasn't working for me in this process. So, I tried to approach my character work in the same way we approached creating this show: through visuals. I can't say they are stunning visuals like the show, but they definitely helped me understand other levels of my character. And through these visuals I was able to move into exploring my character's back-story is a way that I'm more accustomed to (using a lot of words - writing out the long involved back-story, analyzing every moment and so on). The combination of these two ways to approach character are paying off I think. Regardless, I feel more confident than I've felt in awhile. And more taken care-of. Thank you, Blood Ensemble.

back-story exploration. (c) 2012

moment exploration. (c) 2012

I plan to do more of this sort of thing. Maybe a collage next time. It's cathartic and productive both at the same time.

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