This poster was created to promote Pele Cox's second theatre production at the Keats-Shelley House. The play was essentially created from words and lines from the letters and poetry of the historical figures featured as characters in the play, many of which were spoken within the walls of the museum itself.

 

For this poster, I wanted to evoke the feeling of something abandoned -- that kind of graceful decline seen in photos of urban explorers. What would the museum, which was then a boarding house, have looked like today if the only inhabitants after Keats were the echos of the words which Ms. Cox was presenting in her production?

Using a photograph of the ceiling in Keats's bedroom, the painting of which predates Keats's stay at the museum, I merged it with a texture of paint peeling off of a wooden surface. The resulting image is my interpretation of the room's past, present, and hauting might-have-been.

The event ticket uses the same flaking ceiling image arranged to keep the event information easy-to-read and immediately accessable.