The Green Room

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  When you want a little Rock n Roll with your liquor

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  Detail of the waiting area

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  Kinda cozy, don’t you think?

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  When your dressing room is en suite

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  Great shot from just the right height

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  Black and white actually showcases some of the design better

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  You give a girl a guitar case shaped lunchbox and now THIS happens.

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  Teeeeny bar of soap. Made from real soap. Also, all those tiles behind the sink were individually cut and installed because I HAVE TOO MUCH TIME.

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  Yes, I made the box. Yes, I made the toilet roll.

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  More tiny props

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  Pretty proud of my little notebook and the magazine. I’ll also have you know that rumple was very carefully designed into the rug

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  I like to think of this as one of those old 1920s Deco theatres that have become music venues: once glorious, now hard worn.

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  Not gonna admit how much time I spent cutting out and gluing band stickers.

At the Christmas white elephant gift exchange I won a guitar case shaped lunch box and, for reasons that remain unclear, became preoccupied with the idea of turning it into a diorama. In January, I took a field trip to a miniatures store where I picked up the chair, the guitar, the rug, and some of the parquet flooring.

Then the project sat untouched for months.

When I finally got back to work I built out the walls- this was furthers delayed while I tried to sort out lighting- I was very convinced that lighting would be a key element in “selling” the world, but I didn’t have the foggiest idea how to go about it. But once I figured out the wiring and the battery packs and so on I could install the walls and begin to decorate them.

So. Many. Stickers.

So. Much. Distressing.

My idea was that I was creating a little green room for a musician. The venue had once been a glorious 1920’s deco theatre but had since been keelhauled along the bottom side of rock n roll history in dozens of chaotic layers. A place both cozy and homey and also a place that had been completely rockstar-ed many times over.

Anyway, I’m delights with how it turned out and now it’s installed in my liquor cabinet, which feels appropriate.

~ by Gwydhar Gebien on October 20, 2020.