2024 – Masks design for Majid Araim’s @archdukearaim
contemporary opera “Regarding Bullfrogs and Universal Power Dynamics”.

Berklee College of Music graduate and veteran guitarist Jordan Owen began writing about music at 16 and now leads acclaimed groups including Other Strangers, Axis of Empires, and Century Spawn.

“The appeal of Regarding Bullfrogs began with its visual spectacle. Set designer Priscilla Smith’s backdrop was minimalist and mainly served to accentuate the stage lighting, but it provided ample room for the costumed performers to move about in masks designed by Katya Kouznetsova.

These masks, with their uncanny ghoulishness, gave the music, story and interpretive dance that surrounded them a centerpiece to build around. The characters — wild animals and assorted mystical beings — drifted in and out of the shadows in unsettling constructs that called to mind the nightmare realms of David Lynch and Lars Von Trier. 

It cannot be overstated just how much Kouznetsova’s designs worked to sell Regarding Bullfrogs as a performance piece. They were both unnerving and captivating, and that dichotomy served as the visual anchor for an hour of severely odd musical madness.”

https://www.artsatl.org/bullfrogs-opera-jolted-audiences-with-musical-madness/