I struggled to come up with ideas of what the set design would look like. I was stuck, and a little frustrated. I knew I wanted to include a ship’s sail as part of the set design. I hand-drew a rough sketch of a piece of fabric as a representation of a ship’s sail, but it didn’t read well without any context. I went to the New York Public Library to look at the images in the Picture Collection. I was looking for 16th Century ships, and they had an entire file dedicated to navigation and warships from that period. This helped me along in my process, as I was allowed to take pictures of the images with my phone.
