Space Junk

San Diego Symphony — 2026

For this project I collaborated with composer Ivan Trevino and the education team at San Diego Symphony to create visuals for the world premiere of “Space Junk.” This delightful piece by Trevino tells the story of a little star who turns the junk surrounding her into beautiful creations. In the planning process Trevino described his piece as “uplifting feel, buoyant, bubbly“ and he also specified that even though it was about junk, he wanted to keep everything bright and colorful. I applied a simple color scheme to the different stars, which ended up matching the color scheme of the shirts worn by the main performers. In the visuals I toned down the brightness for the part of the story when the little star was sad and covered with trash, and then brought the brightness back up for when she starts to spin the space junk into “cool clothes, bright jewelry, and even musical instruments.” We kept the visuals simple so that they didn’t conflict with the action of performers on stage, but instead added to the story-telling process. For the pre-concert craft, we invited the concert-goers to join in the process of “making something from nothing” by making a craft crown and decorating it with all the leftover craft supplies from the previous year.  It was so much fun to be a part of the creative process for a beautiful piece of music about the creative process.