Tier 1
The Rorschach Portal
- Abstract shapes drift and shift slowly on their own
- Self-running and unattended, no operator needed
- All-custom imagery, made for the show
- Solid, low-risk real projection-mapped portal
Projection-mapped portal · The Rug Room
The Portal
A Rorschach Passage for The Witch's Ball
The idea
Projection-mapped Rorschach
The viewer completes the experience.
Guests walk through a long, draped corridor in the rug room. Projected onto the fabric are abstract, shifting forms, ambiguous shapes that never resolve into one fixed picture.
Each guest completes them differently, shaped by their own perception and mood. The ambiguity is deliberate: open enough that every viewer sees something of themselves, steered underneath so the themes land where we want them to.
Two people standing side by side look at the same projected form and take away different images, and both feel the space responded to them.
The recurring anchor & the journey
We will develop numerous visual anchors by exploring multiple motifs that will emerge from the imagery, each evoking its own theme wihout overtly stating it.
I
The Approach
Still recognizable as "their world," with subtle wrongness creeping in.
II
The Threshold
Full transformation — the drapery becomes alive. Interactivity peaks here.
III
The Emergence
The new world stabilizes; calmer, more luminous.
The anchor in motion · part 1 of 3 (reference piece)
Tier 2
The Living Portal
- Projections become alive and responsive
- Motion/body tracking triggers effects as guests pass
- Forms smear, dissolve and reform; zones bloom with crowd density
- One artist on site tuning live
The anchor in motion · part 2 of 3 (reference piece)
Tier 3
The Immersive Threshold
- Third projector plus dedicated generative system
- Real-time imagery performed live in the space
- Projected onto the guests themselves
- Artist reads movement, costume, energy, prompts in direct response
- Optional QR photo/video take-away, emailed on the spot
The anchor in motion · part 3 of 3 (reference piece)
Pricing at a glance
Each price covers hardware, installation (hanging fabrics, mounting projectors), projection-map calibration, content development, and artist time.
Tier 1 $6,000
- Cables, switch, power, mounting, basic sensors
- Hang drapery from scaffolding, mount projectors, rigging
- Map visuals to each panel, blend overlap, color-match on fabric
- All-custom Rorschach imagery plus pre-rendered compositions per zone
- Control patch plus safe-mode fallback
- Off-site design and prep (no on-site staffing)
Tier 2 $9,000
- Everything in Tier 1, plus:
- Additional sensors (+ optional local audio) for motion/body tracking
- Interactive effects: smear, dissolve, zone-density response, journey logic
- One artist on site for the full event, adjusting in real time
- Rehearsal / tuning session before doors
Tier 3 $15–18k
- Everything in Tier 2, plus:
- Third projector plus dedicated computer running real-time generative imagery
- Final-scene composition: projection onto guests and rear drapery
- Real-time pipeline with live prompt/parameter control
- Two artists on site, one performing live, one running the system
- Optional QR photo/video capture plus on-the-spot email (top of range)
Good to know
Single-night event. We load in the day before, run the show, and load out the day after. Everything is tested end-to-end before doors, with fallbacks built in so a failure degrades gracefully rather than going blank.
Add-ons available at any tier: camera-based silhouette personalization, a designed local soundscape, expanded drapery, or additional mapped zones elsewhere in the ball.
What we need from you
1
ScheduleDate + exact load-in / load-out windows
2
Guest volumeTotal, peak throughput, typical group sizes
3
Power & connectivityReliable power in the rug room? Circuits / amps?
4
Venue techExisting cameras / sensors / AV team? Who handles scaffolding?
5
Content directionThemes for the motifs, anything to avoid, mood boards
6
AudioRoute a feed from the main space, or a local soundscape?
7
QR take-awayConfirm interest in the on-the-spot photo/video email (Tier 3)