Ali commented in response to my paper that she would like to see what was in my Appendix...I'm assuming this is referring to the image I reference. (Part of our assignment was to select one image to be exemplary of our visual research). So here it is! Certainly its relationship to the play is more abstract/metaphorical than visual or compositional, but I think what drew me to it is the incredible instability and potentiality of the ice sheets--yet they are still clearly existing in some sort of enduring stasis. The violence of the ship's pathway is also certainly significant.
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I think this photo is really interesting in the context of the play, and especially in the context of the character Christina. Christina seems to be a lot like the ice to me, very "static and restrained" as Annie describes the ice in her paper. Yet there is some water underneath, which Christina shows when she agrees with Fefu after Fefu's monologue on the differences between women and men (I don't have my script with me so I can't give the page number, but it's in part one shortly before the arrival of the other guests). Christina says something like how she admires the ease men have with each other (water's fluidity?). She ends by saying something like: "I'm sure I don't have it," drawing herself safely back into ice-world.
This exchange clearly affects her, though, because after Fefu leaves, Christina responds to a question from Cindy by saying (roughly): "What do I think? I hurt. I'm all shreds inside." Fefu is the ship that tears through Christina's comfortable ice sheets, leaving her in shreds. It's interesting how Christina switches from a question about her thoughts to talking about how she feels ("What do I think? I hurt."). I don't think Christina often talks about about feeling, though she uses phrases like "I think" and "I suppose" a lot. One notable counter-example is when she says, "But I also feel that they are dangerous to me" talking about adventurers like Fefu. Is it that Fefu makes her feel, and that's scary/dangerous? When I have my script again, I'd like to look through it to investigate more the instances in which characters think and those in which they feel.
Also, the fragmented quality of the ice sheets reminds me of Christina's fragmented way of speaking, especially in her monologue in part two.
These are just early character musings, which will probably change as I work more with her. Tomorrow I will post another comment with page numbers and more exact quotations.
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