Prospect & Refuge
2025
Art Direction/ Photography/ Costume Design
Parsons School of Design
Prospect & Refuge exists in the space between freedom and shelter.
Prospect and Refuge is a conceptual photoshoot and costume design project featuring two butterfly characters: Prospect & Refuge. Prospect is the joy of the future. Refuge is the joy of the past. Together, they are the total bliss found in the present moment.
Costume Design was done in Collaboration with Madison Jaet.
Models: Mike Armellino and Madison Jaet.
Photo Assist: Willem Wauters
Makeup: Reilly Stranahan and Ava Trent
PA: Reilly Stranahan
Prospect & Refuge was created in Integrated Design Studio with Marisa Morán Jahn and Marc Parroquin.
Prospect & Refuge as characters were initially inspired by Jaet’s ongoing watercolor paintings. Free flowing and colorful. Something full of joy and hope, spontaneous and punchy. In a meditation I saw these colors spiraling out and being joined by their opposite. A black spiral.
Madison Jaet Watercolors:
From Nabokov Pale Fire: “And blood-black nothingness began to spin. A system of cells interlinked, within cells interlinked, within cells interlinked within one stem. And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.”
Concept Sketch for “Refuge” wings:
We painted the two sets of wings and listened to The Rolling Stones “She’s a Rainbow” and “Paint It, Black” as we worked.
Jaet trying on the “Prospect” wings:
