The Creative Process of our new Genesis set ...

I’ve had the best time over the past several months working and brainstorming with our team on how we could change our Genesis set as we move into the temptation and fall of man. We’ve all been really proud of the set that has been up for the past several months and wanted to find a way to continue using that set but turn it into something that is “not quite right.” As we began to study how the fall of man changed the nature of our relationship with God, we wanted the set to symbolize that as well.

Following that train of thought we threw around several ideas including one of shredding the flats to show how mankind destroyed what God had created. Thinking “practically” ... since the flats we have are so versatile we really didn’t want to ruin them! Instead we decided to turn them on their sides. Just like in the garden, what was is now different—what was vertical has become horizontal. They’re the same flats but now they are situated in a way that was not the original intent.  

The creative process is always a learning process, and over the past couple of weeks I’ve been learning more about my position with God—who I am and who I was created to be. It’s sounds funny to say that I’ve gained spiritual knowledge from some cloth, paint, wood, and a video projector, but it’s true. Although I am fallen, because of Christ, I am redeemed and being restored.

- Joe Blair, Director of Production