Head of the Storm is a challenging story to interpret, as it invites the audience to question what is real and whose version of reality can be trusted. This made it difficult to anchor the design in a single, objective perspective.

Ultimately, I approached the world as an active questioning of reality itself. I was particularly influenced by a painter living with Alzheimer’s disease, whose work revealed a tension between knowing and unknowing through the use of positive and negative space.

While it may not be the playwright’s explicit intention, I chose to center the design through the perspective of the main character’s experience with Alzheimer’s. That subjectivity—fragmented, shifting, and at times contradictory—became the foundation of the visual world.