Here is Reshmi, the performer with the hat, since the initial top hat wasn’t stable enough I recycled a bike hat, with straps. The big shoe box is akward, I hope the flames will cover it. Also my  dislexic self made a huge mistake “Ukraine Internatinal”, I  missed a letter, I had to redo and repaint the whole thing.














We wanted to represent the plane as a shell waiting to explode.



Here you can see sharpnels and bits of shoes and t-shirts, hands and feets.

This is a quick drawing, showing the irony. The worst is that this accident was a mistake. The plane was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).[4][5][6] All 176 passengers and crew were killed. 
The military had indeed shot down the airliner, having mistaken it for a cruise missile. IT IS REVOLTING!

I liked the idea of representing personal posessions in a crash, I think  it calls to more identification. The realisation that it involved real people, with real lives!!! That it could have been us in truth. I think the problem  with our generation and what I attempted to convey through this piece, is our growing indifference towards traumatic news. When you sit down and watch the show, you are waiting what would be coming next but with a certain detachement.  They are numerous that we watch them on TV like we would with a cartoon. We became alienated to the horrors threwn at us. 



With the face showing or without?



I soon came to realize that tissue paper wasn’t going to last for the shows, with all the tossing around happening backstage. It was much too fragile and was inevitably going to get squashed and torn. Also I think it looks messy and doesn’t represent flames well enough, I will instead redo them in card.





The shame with Reshmi’s  performance is that she didn’t step into the spotlight and is always at the edge instead of hitting the mark. 


Makeup LOOK




I worked with Caroline Pholien, to make the ukrainian  plane crash.
We decided to do a jug.

She liked my idea of representing  personal posessions as a symbol of the crash, therefore we scattered shoes, socks, trousers socks hands all over the teapot. And We decided to do the explosion as the lid. 





Caroline Pholien accidentally mistook the Ukrainian plane crash of 2020 and the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, MH17 of 2014. The plane that disappeared without traces. At the end of the day, the difference isn’t that noticeable as it still portrays a plane crash, just not one that happened in 2020