The Delirium Constructions is an ongoing body of work exploring disassociated themes and characters brought together into the same space. I bring models into improbable, close interactions to examine the social and graphic contrasts of youth and experience, hysteria and discipline, tragedy and hilarity, and sexuality and desexualization.

These scenarios are staged, but the emotions that result are born through improvisation, spontaneously captured and authentically experienced. Like an optical illusion, where the viewer shifts between opposing visual perceptions, these images reference emotional illusion, a rocking back and forth between projection and introspection, between darkness and hilarity.

120 models + musicians were assembled into a series of suspended interactions, against a backdrop of choral droning and unified gestural 'dance'. The Delirium Constructions, a series of still photographic images depicting unlikely characters in improbable scenarios, was brought to life. At once performance, party and experiment, the Tableau Vivant was the centerpiece for 800+ attendees. Since 2009, Small has directed several smaller Tableaux, exploring various components of this 120-model+musician performance.