I was commissioned to create this photo illustration for Page 73‘s recent production Lidless in NYC.
The play is about the reunion of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and a soldier that worked there at the same time, but has since medicated away her memories of her experiences. We needed an image that represented this intense story without turning off the audience with violent images and at the same time avoiding making it seem like a play about prescription drug abuse.
We decided that orange fabric (the color of Gitmo jump suits) could be used to represent the hidden past that comes exploding from the torn open head of the solider.