“Fourteen. Fourteen ways of hearing an absent melody.”

—ERIK LARSEN

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Set design for Enigma Variations by Éric Emmanuel Schmitt.

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A remote island study envisioned as a landscape of objects that hover somewhere between vitality and decay, presence and absence.

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On the one hand, a teeming mass of things that have lost their identity: a baroque accumulation of weathered remnants and traces. On the other, a series of objects whose identity is animated when they are engaged with or aggregate.

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Things which—on stage, as in life—are not just background, but active (if enigmatic) participants in the creation of meaning and memory.