Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Theme Park Crafted with Abandon: Theatre Bizarre”.
And when you enter there’s the arches of the roof of the of the cathedral and you’re looking up, and you may immediately feel humbled or presence, and so the design of this space was based off that the compression of the fun house when he walked through was The sign of ghost train and hellmouth, and then the spook show, is the altar and it’s it’s the lines of a cathedral yeah. It was a halloween party, it came out of halloween parties at my house, you know it just kept getting bigger and and then it built a circus, but i wasn’t taking it seriously. I was using icons that i liked from other things, and it wasn’t it wasn’t. I wasn’t setting out to do this and i kept picturing it as this abandoned theme park. It was empty and when people showed up it changed everything and i was like wow. I didn’t really imagine the people here. Ken had been a friend for years, and so he bought up this land which had a couple of empty lots in the center, and it was basically six six lots, and over the years it’s almost been to me, it’s been a little magical in a way. The uh, which i know will sound weird with the explanation of because of the drug wars right behind us all. The houses blew up, they burnt down, they uh and they opened up and, as we grew, the land would open up.
We built a fair we’ve watched the fairgrounds for years, just kind of slowly fall apart and then they finally closed it down, because they didn’t really explore anything. They didn’t grow. It was poorly run and now there’s nothing there. They use it as a parking lot for uh overflow for car dealerships so and we a lot of people, we’ve told over time just for fun the that this was the original fairgrounds and that they they moved over.
There got huge and forgot about this spot, so people would believe us, i’m i’m an illustrator but uh. I my heart was in a lot of other things, and so i was always studying things like architecture, sculpture and graphic design, a lot of different avenues of art that are creative outlets that never really gelled until this happened. Everything is is weathered and aged and it’s it’s left to rot. It’S.
It’S definitely a part of the look and uh. I always loved weathering things even as a kid, but i think it was also like i was saying, exploring detroit as a kid and seeing a lot of the beauty and decay you .