I had the opportunity to attend two performances The Wizard of Oz and Cafe Idiot. The first performance took place on the large and classical stage of the theatre, there was an opportunity to visit the backstage and dressing room and warm up at the ballet barn. The Café Idiot performance took place on the more modern stage of The Meyerhold Theatre Centre. I became more interested in the second performance, as it was more dramatic and emotionally complex. I wanted to work with emotions and with a more mature audience. Although for the Wizard of Oz, I had some interesting visual ideas too.

The interaction begins with covert male observation of the female manifestation (vulnerable and outspoken at the same time). Space, shapes and shadows maintain a sense of latent tension at every stage. I also include objects as symbolic substitutions or extensions of feminine and masculine images. For example, a chair with male legs symbolizes some kind of support for a woman, but at the same time, it is a holding force that creates tension between two figures.
The final stage is an attempt to make dramatic superiority over female sensitivity. The knife in this is not so much about murder, but about acute internal tension.

All three pictures together create a certain atmosphere and space but seen from different angles, as well as the interaction of male and female images.
At first glance, it seems that there is no uniform colour balance in the triptych. And there is. The idea is that black colour conveys tension that transforms from the external, as seen from the side in the first illustration, to the internal tension of the male character and the manifestation of his madness.

For the final outcomes, I worked on the shapes to make them more convincing and complete, also on details like the famous green wall pattern, interior details, shadows, textures.

This was my first such official vernissage, it was exciting. The opening was very well organized. We (students) did not participate in the printing and placement of works in the ZIL space and it was doubly interesting how everything would turn out in the end. It seems to me that it was an excellent final of the project, even despite some alarming episode a few days before the event, which taught first of all that direct communication with the client and clear drawing up and adherence of the brief is important in working with a client.