Still life With Flowers deals with issues of social isolation and group pressure. The piece began with two images on stage. A single solitary figure isolated in a large void and an amorphous blob undulating in the shadows.

As the lighting builds to reveal these two entities it becomes constrictive. First two boxes form from the light and we see a woman in a white dress and a mass of people. The mass of people become individuated yet mechanical in their movement.

The group rises to their feet and a path of light opens up before them. As they begin to walk this path, the light traces its way around the stage placing the woman in white inside another box. Isolation becomes false security and eventually becomes despair. The salvation at the finale comes to us as loss.

The lighting for this piece was an exercise in illuminative negative space. How to define an area by absence. This concept caried over from the choreography which also was interested in exploring notions of positive and negative space, though through the medium of social interaction.

The linear movement of the group eventually breaks down as they violate the empty space. Through their physical presence the space reconfigures and we find ourselves all lost in a void.

An emotional wasteland.

Saved and lost.