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Education Visual Imagination

Student work

Livia Stetson

Took Visual Imagination in 2024

Built her semester arc around the LA section of Passing Strange, threading the same set of choices from the Lines project all the way through her Painting with Light treatment. Captions below are pulled from her reflection statements.

Progression

Livia's work across Visual Imagination, in syllabus order. Each project builds on the last.

  1. 01

    Lines project

    Week 4

    Livia Stetson · Lines project: four pen-only sketches arranged in a 2×2 grid around the title PASSING STRANGE, one for each section of the show (LA, Berlin, Amsterdam, Now)
  2. 02

    Color project

    Week 7

    Livia Stetson · Color project: the same four-window composition with up to four colors per section layered onto the lines
  3. 03

    Form & Texture project

    Week 10 (in-class)

    Livia Stetson · Form & Texture project: a paper-plate base, four straw pillars, cotton-ball clouds, a metallic silver crinkled centerpiece, and tissue-paper drapery flowing outward

    Most people went for Berlin's roughness or Amsterdam's creativity, but in this story LA was bland and the lead felt his creativity being stunted. The mountain signifies the start of his journey; the pedestal's scaling pillars carry the anxiety of being pulled in different directions. The metallic silver in the center is his creative flame, and the cotton balls show his future felt cloudy and unknown.

    Livia Stetson, in their reflection statement

    Read the full statement ↓

  4. 04

    Painting with Light project

    Week 12 (in-class)

    Livia Stetson · Painting with Light: the Form & Texture model lit with a narrowed front light on the silver torch, R363 blue from the back corner, and warm E316 across the pillars
    • Livia Stetson · Painting with Light: alternate angle of the first lighting look, with a visible fixture in the upper right
      Look 1: alternate angle. The visible source in the upper right is one of the lab fixtures she gelled R363.
    • Livia Stetson · Color keys: a blue R363 swatch and a warm E316 swatch on a kraft-paper backdrop, both labeled by gel number
      Color keys: R363 (blue) and E316 (warm). She labeled each swatch with its gel number on the bottom edge.
    • Livia Stetson · Painting with Light: the second lighting look, with a single gobo'd cyc light from above and two cool blues from stage left, dramatic top-down shadows
      Look 2: a single gobo'd cyc light from above and two cool blues from stage left. Dark and isolated, but hopefully on its way out.

    I narrowed the front light onto the silver torch and brought out the flecks of color, with R363 blue from the back corner and warm E316 sweeping the pillars. The youth had one thing keeping him going, and that was his creative flame.

    Livia Stetson, in their reflection statement

    Read the full statement ↓

  5. 05

    Sound project

    Week 14 (in-class)

    Background ambience (2 min)
    Plane sound effect
  6. 06

    Final project

    Finals week

    Not yet posted.

Other students

More work from this run of Visual Imagination.