ORPHEUS

Very recently I saw the Broadway musical HADESTOWN. Loved the shit out of it. It made me think about Orpheus (in regards to mythology) and especially, the French film adaptation “Orpheus” from 1950. I feel connected to this film because I had to do a design assignment for this back in Art School (New York City Tech). It was to do an abstract design based off the movie using color film cut outs. The composition was based off the scene in where the hero enters into Hades with strong wind against him during his travels in the underworld.

This assignment for the class was EXPEEEENNSSIIIVVVEEE. Any old school art student/artist back then (which is amazing because I am only 28) will tell you that Color Film was not cheap. Though I did do a rough layout sketch, I was going about this using pure gut, but at the same time wanting to be methodical. At the end, I threw caution in the wind and used up all the fragments of film that made sense. This piece got over very well. From teachers, fellow students and friends, they all loved it.