“They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!”

Blanche DuBois, Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

 

She entered the stage in a white coat extruding a presence that made her distant from the realities of the streets of New Orleans when the audience were introduced to Blanche Dubois. Her demise was announced at her arrival at Elysian Fields where her sister resides with her husband. In Greek mythology, Elysian Fields is an underworld. This project came about as a response to a previous project created – a white 1930s dress with a blush pink ribbon for the character’s opening scene. An expression of a childlike innocence and far removed from reality. Everything these set of photographs suggests are not. Denouement is a photographic series that portrays the closure of Blanche DuBois’s chapter in her own Elysian Fields as told in the play Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams in 1947.

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Denouement is a series of photographs previewing the final parts of Blanche Dubois’s story in Tennessee William’s 1947 play Streetcar Named Desire. Her narrative began at the end of the lifestyle she once had when she arrived at her sister’s apartment in New Orleans via a streetcar named Desire. It was the first project I produced when I returned to Massey in 2017 where students were to respond to one of the projects created in previous first year studio papers. Unlike most of the other students, I too began at the end, and so the concept had to come from a project I created at Southern Institute of Technology where I transferred from. There I designed a garment for the opening scene of the play, a white 1930s dress with a pink bow, a portrayal of a Southern Belle’s childlike innocence from reality. In this project, there was nothing innocent nor perfect, just the death of one’s lavish life they once knew.