Suburban RED
In each chapter of Suburban RED the character wakes up with a look that is very different than in the previous chapter. In the Suburban PURPLE chapter, for example, the character wears purple and has long wavy hair and moustache with soul patch under the lower lip.
Each chapter's color motif helped to inform the characters. I would ask myself, for example, "What does the color purple mean to me?", and I would brainstorm the color and come up with story and character. Purple, for example, makes me think of hippies and black-lights, of the artist Prince, and of the color lavender and its connection to the LGBTQ community. Then, with the long hair and soul patch I thought of Frank Zappa and the way he furthered the image of the male rockstar as playful with sexuality, clothing and iconoclastic images of masculinity.
The story within the purple chapter also has to do with listening and I decided to feature large images of ears done up in pop-art fashion on the doors to the bedroom set. I was using a wide angle lens and I wanted to make use of the way it captured the full of the room and so I felt the designs on the walls could flow out upward on the ceiling (thanks to black artist's tape).