The main idea of the project was to find different ways of displaying the object. A More creative and interactive display. A display that would create curiosity and interest in the viewer. Keeping this in mind we had to do a display for a museum in Kerala.
For this, my main objective was to have a relation among the objects to be displayed rather than placing them in isolation on shelves as display.
For this, my main objective was to have a relation among the objects to be displayed rather than placing them in isolation on shelves as display.
Concept
While researching on puppets, there were certain characters that held more importance than the others. Certain puppets were shown in many scenes. There was a god, then the king and so on. So I wanted to show hierarchy. On further iteration I thought of recreating a kerala house roof and converting that into a shelf for the puppets. The main puppet would come on top and the puppets under it would come below. I thought of making the inverted ‘v’ that they have on the roof as a shelf and having a more decorated shelf for the main puppet, a less decorated one for the secondary puppets and have the wall as a gallery of puppets for the tertiary ones. The inverted ‘v’ shelf would be protruding out of the wall and the gallery of puppets would be placed as a cavity in the wall.
I decided to have a stage for the performance in the display room itself because after the performance one can go back to he puppets and get a better picture of their role. The stage will have a wing on either side for keeping their props.
For the performance it is very difficult to see when everyone is standing. For this I decided to have a rectangular cavity in the floor which will be 2 feet or more deep, where people can sit on the planks and view the puppet show.
While researching on puppets, there were certain characters that held more importance than the others. Certain puppets were shown in many scenes. There was a god, then the king and so on. So I wanted to show hierarchy. On further iteration I thought of recreating a kerala house roof and converting that into a shelf for the puppets. The main puppet would come on top and the puppets under it would come below. I thought of making the inverted ‘v’ that they have on the roof as a shelf and having a more decorated shelf for the main puppet, a less decorated one for the secondary puppets and have the wall as a gallery of puppets for the tertiary ones. The inverted ‘v’ shelf would be protruding out of the wall and the gallery of puppets would be placed as a cavity in the wall.
I decided to have a stage for the performance in the display room itself because after the performance one can go back to he puppets and get a better picture of their role. The stage will have a wing on either side for keeping their props.
For the performance it is very difficult to see when everyone is standing. For this I decided to have a rectangular cavity in the floor which will be 2 feet or more deep, where people can sit on the planks and view the puppet show.
Top view
Front View
The Room
Poster
The puppets showed beautiful detail in the carving and costumes. I wanted to make this aspect prominent to the viewers. Therefore I decided the image to speak for itself rather than the text giving information. This I did by having the image in a large size, covering almost three fourth of the page and having the information at the bottom. I wanted the viewer to get maximum information from the image and then go to the text for further details.
Catalogue
There is going to be a detailed information about the topic inside the catalogue. Hence I thought of keeping the cover a little towards the abstract side by having a part of the puppet and not focusing on the puppet itself by making it literal. I wanted to create mystery, curiosity in the viewer to open the catalogue and have a look inside. I chose to give importance to the hands of the puppets because just by the Kath kali madras, one can know what puppet character it is.
Cover
Inside
Back Page
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