Sunday, September 28, 2014

Abstraction

LSU Theatre's production of Elephants Graveyard effectively created dark matter for me. An elephant is put to death after killing a human. But should she have without a fair trial, which is put to question. But the dark matter is the elephant. The elephant is never seen or heard. So without seeing, we have to go to our imaginations to picture this elephant in physical form. So we have to rely on the stories of the town people that are speaking about this elephant and the horrific thing that happened to her. The emotions and stories of these town people effectively bring the dark matter of  the elephant alive which by this result there is still the mystery of what she looked like to take in her physical form and reflect all as a whole. But would the physical form of the elephant solve the questions that you would have on the matter at hand. Would with or without dark matter questions would be answered. 

Them we go to the question of could we handle the scene of the elephant's hanging. When I was hearing the step by step actions that were taken of her killing, it was good choice not to show or watch her death in any form or way. It's is something that should not be seen or heard. And the dark matter of it all is so powerful because it brings the power of mystery and questions alive. I enjoy that power and it is effective to strengthing my imagination and questioning reality itself. 

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