THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
An experimental production method, becomes the device for poignant storytelling.
DESIGN, PRODUCTION
This version of
The Little Match Girl, was created as a book, an object, and an experience. Bound in match-book size and typeset like poetry, the pages are then coated in heat-sensitive black ink. The effect is such that the words can only be read once illuminated by matchlight.
The experience of this book, parallels its written content, forcing readers to continually light matches, just as the little match girl does. The end of the story comes with the extinguishing of light in the exhibition room, the death of the match girl, and the “dimming” of the pages back to black. Once the lights come back on, there is a faint burnt smell in the air and a pile of matches at ones feet.
ROLE
Designer, Producer
COLLABORATORSKeetra Dean Dixon (RISD)
SEASONFall 2018
