The work process for the Remembered Time Project

I used the key themes of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" in order to visualize my project.
It took me a LOT of time to really figure out what the heck I was doing but I really deconstructed the story into its most simplest form.

A quick sketch:




I used the spiral form because the staircase in the story really struck me as the vehicle for the princesses to move from one world to the next. The spiral is also indicative of  an illusion, an otherworldly experience that hypnotizes and confuses. I used the spiral as the base of the project.

Next, I decided that rather than using the basic polygon shape for the "steps" of the staircase, i used a more abstract shape in the form of a leaf because of the three forests that the characters walk through made of gold, silver and diamonds.

I used strings to tie every third dowel to each other because of the three forests, and the fact that the number 12 is a multiple of three. The strings to me also were a representation of the traveller's journey down the staircase because they are not as stable, as concrete as the wooden forms of the project. The strings are attached underneath the staircase because the traveller was able to elude detection under a cloak of invisibility - he is therefore unseen and undercover (literally).

The final project: