"A Fall At The Circus"

"A Fall At The Circus" is a project created for my Art Direction course taught by Professor Snow Fu at the Scorsese Institute. The basis of the project was to put in motion a few Bauhaus elements of design. After reasearching, it seemed to me that Bauhaus elements invoke some sort of question of balance or imbalance, which is then up to the artist/designer/thinker to weigh the scales properly. I landed on exploring the ideas of Softness vs Hardness, opacity vs transparency, texture vs pattern, and realism vs irony.

The short itself starts with a crumpled ball rolling off the "circus platform" - this simply gets the ball rolling, and who knows what can happen when something falls. The Diamond appears next, with the ring falling, bouncing, then flipping over the diamond before circling it. The ring then tumps-over, and the diamond glides softly down to rest in it. The noise of the circus song invokes a sense of play, but it can seem off putting in the context of a diamond and ring. 

Beyond the confines of the class assignment I wanted to explore my feelings of confusion when it comes to love, romance, and relationship. At times I have felt as though love is nothing more than a circus meant to entertain, or a place for fools to fall into oblivion and pretend they are fine. Those feelings of love being a farce occured just because of the noise of a ciruces circling the mind. The cynical and cyclical perspective was the problem which caused the fall, and yet some how despite the noise and reasons the rest was gentle. 

The central theme of this piece is that maybe it's the right thing to let yourself fall at the circus, at least then you know you'll be having fun when you do.