Containers of Red is an interactive CD-ROM implementing levels of interpretation of universal themes from the story of Little Red Riding Hood through image and sound. This work is exhibited in a gallery space with video projection and a red track ball submerged into a bright red podium for interaction.

This work is a collection of Little Red Riding Hood-based video images that are structurally divided into sixteen vignette containers. The sixteen containers provide a symbolic cartesian coordinate interface on a two-dimensional surface. Each frame is juxtaposed on a horizontal (x), a vertical (y), and a conceptual depth (z) level. Moreover, the piece works linearly from left to right, vertically from top to bottom, and within a z-depth level of sixteen containers that reveal various interpretations. This metamorphosis structure provides different narratives that reflect varying levels of poetic, traditional, and substitutional storytelling. These sixteen containers are in constant flux with one another and consist of 256 elements. These elements formulate a possible 18, 446,744, 073,700,000,000 plus variations of authored versions of Little Red Riding Hood.

I assume the position of the storyteller in a hierarchical structure that feeds down to the interauthorship of the next storyteller. As the interactor or participant changes the frames, a new symbolic storyteller is projected. As the participant explores the multitude of choices, a unique story is created and told through my predetermined images and sounds and enhanced by the viewer's association with the images working in unison. As the sixteen images play simultaneously, they create a whole narrative. My intent was to structurally design a new way of looking at a story by breaking it down to its most salient elements. It is my goal to create a narration of images, sound, and interaction of my version of the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. As I join a long line of storytellers who have given their insights and personal interpretations of this well known tale, I offer a new technological adaptation that is especially explicit of my personal art form.

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