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A series of stage design sketches created by me for an imagined theatrical adaptation of Coraline. 🗝️🌙
These concepts explore Coraline’s world as a strange, dreamlike space where childhood wonder slowly slips into something unsettling. Familiar rooms become distorted, colors grow almost unnaturally vivid, and every playful detail carries a quiet sense of danger.
I wanted the set itself to feel alive — somewhere between a dollhouse, a childhood memory, and a nightmare. A world that looks inviting from afar, but becomes increasingly disturbing the longer you stay inside it.
Concept & scenic design sketches by Tigran Harutyunyan.

A surreal portrait suspended between dream and memory. Birds circle and emerge around the figure like fragments of thought, while the distant architecture anchors the scene in a quiet, almost forgotten world. Cool blues, muted greens, and sudden warm tones create a sense of melancholy, freedom, and transformation.

A portrait of beauty caught between transformation and decay. The chameleons become symbols of adaptation, instinct, and survival, while the melting face reveals the fragile nature of identity. Color spreads across the skin like a living organism — as if the body itself is changing, reacting, becoming something new.
A quiet dialogue between the human and the animal, the beautiful and the unsettling, control and surrender. 🦎