My attempt with this piece was to present Jane’s fears, concerns, and anxieties through the lens of a nightmare. Though the audience is aware of the events that surround Jane, often we don’t parse out what they all add up to. Jane’s story is a human struggle, and to better understand her struggle I sought out to arrange it in a more organic way. In nightmares, our anxieties come out in abstract ways, and they are compounded by other natural fears, such as darkness, heights, not knowing which way is up, ect. By arranging Jane’s fears in this way, we can see them all at once, and can sympathize with Jane in a more direct way. I've set it up in such a way that in flipping it upside down, the motion of the dripping blood and flowing soda are reversed, drawing on the coke recipe scene and the editing scene from the novel. There is a kicker here in that I ignored the elephant in the room, the child. Something so important to Jane I omitted entirely, and as such I portrayed her as in search of something lost.
