Afraid of the Dark Portfolio

Logan Watkins

For Kassidy and my project, in our studio, Afraid of The Dark we chose to do a live art piece. After thinking about what our most prominent fear was, we chose the fear of the unknown, once placed in the complete dark where your mind can wander. In order to show this we had some of the dancers help us out. We had Lindsay Gilliam sitting center stage as the person who is expressing this fear. Around her would be the other girls placed at each corner representing her fears and paranoia. They would be dressed in black from head to toe in order to not be seen as much, while Lindsay would be wearing all white. There would be two blacklights set up on either side of the stage with all the lights turned off. Each corner would have a bucket of white paint for the girls to use from the outer corners eventually reaching LIndsay by the time the song Tiptoe Through The Tulips ended. This would symbolize her mind eventually giving up and succumbing to her fear of the dark. Since it was a project that could've gone many different ways I would say the audience reacted well to it and everything went as planned.