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Neotropolis is a fully immersive pop-up festival that happens over 4-days in the middle of the Mojave desert, where attendees can create their own groups and factions, actually helping to build the festival themselves. I attended the even with the new faction the “B0N3 Z0N3”, and helped install the pieces into a 10’ x 10’ space, with guidance from designer Kelly Turnbull.
The project was to make a scene that could fit in with a fictional work, and to create and curate all the props to go within. I chose my favorite video game franchise, Fallout, and brought together research from the official art books, fanart, and, of course, the games. After losing access to the tools provided by campus in 2020, the scope of the project was reduced down to accommodate for what we had accessible at home.