Project Description: A 600ft2 continuous screenprint installed in a small theater as part of the set for Just Theater’s production of Down A Little Dirt Road by Erin Bregman.  Designed to completely envelop the room’s floor and part of its wall, the piece was hand printed on commercial vinyl flooring material and secured with gaffer’s tape.

Concept: The set was designed to enclose the audience in the world of the play, where earthquakes and dreams coalesce in the increasingly fraught psyches of the characters.  Imagery for the print was collected from slip-fault diagrams, technical maps, and geological analyses.  The images were combined and patterned on the vinyl material one stencil at a time. This was part of my work as the designer of the play’s set, which also featured walls, passageways, and secret chambers fabricated from 150 corrugated boxes.

Blog:
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Fabrication and Installation
Burning the Screens
Compiling the Images
Graphic Design
Building the Rest of the Set

Media Moral Support:
“Jon Fischer's set of packing-box towers and moving door frames [is] creative.”
SF Chronicle Review (June 14, 2011)

“Jon Fischer's set, innovatively using cardboard boxes as both the trembling walls and a sense of the moving and impermanence in Alice and her dad's life, is splendid”
Berkeley Daily Planet Review (June 22, 2011)

Credits:
Down A Little Dirt Road Screenprint
By: Jon Fischer

With Assistance From:
Maddie Pereira
Jonathan Spector
Louel Senores
Erin Bregman
Molly Gelb