I had an intense and satisfying learning curve designing this show. The stage director and I, first time collaborators, enjoyed the design process getting to know one another and the staging needs of the opera.  The design journey was not a straight path and began and ended in very different places benefiting from reduction, conceptual zigzags and happy accidents in the model box. Like the excellent and evocative costumes and lighting, the set design was infused with Asian imagery, Qing ink drawing and calligraphy technique, and the Cantonese Opera.