Stacey Sterns directs a movement piece based on the essay by Karinne Keithley “Montgomery Park, Or, Opulence: An Essay in the Form of a Building”. In a magnetic mise en scène Sterns honors the text in its surreal contemplation of the forms of human consciousness in a fictional asylum. The symbiotic relation between the space and the characters allowed me to embrace a design process that understood the building as one of the characters. The costume design for the piece evokes the poetic nature of a text that addresses the beauty of human vulnerability, contradiction, and melancholy.