During our first studio session the director, my assistant and I faced an empty scaled model box lit with a simple desk lamp. How could we translate my 2D pencil sketches into 3D space? On impulse I grabbed my model table blotter and torn off 2 hunks of chip board and fashioned 2 crude “mountains” placing them in the model box with the scale human figures. We were intrigued by what we saw. Then the director asked, “Can the 2 mountains really be made out of cardboard?” 

This question led to a fascinating, and wildly successful, collaboration with my Technical team to R&D a process to convincingly replicate in steel, wood and canvas the simplicity and honesty of the simply torn and curved cardboard model shapes in the model box.