Read his story: His shoes and jeans are splattered with star paint. His fingernails are lined with the dirt of creation.
John Wilder, a senior in the arts program at Gibbs High, just constructed his own version of heaven, the Earth and the underworld.
After months of drawing, drafting and calculating against the risk of flooding an entire building of his high school, Wilder designed the set for a production of Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman’s retelling of classical mythology.
The centerpiece of his design is a shimmering, 23-ton pool of water that occupies almost the entire stage. Gods and mortals splash through it, commit incest there, fall in love there, are dragged under its surface to their deaths.
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