Everything's way too literal. Sitting in a chair in front of an ugly box when you could be running around in an open space seems regressive to me, not something that is going to make a more creative human being. It can be any color I want it to be. And they're totally authentic because they're authentically from my imagination. It means that it speaks to you, that it touches you, that you understand it .
People know instantly when they see that what it is.
Therefore, it's communicating. I've always been impressed with how the stories you tell often operate on myriad levels, making them appropriate, then, for people of all ages and capacities. It depends on the piece. I've done a couple of Shakespeare's plays and, obviously, Shakespeare, in his day, wrote plays that also operated on many levels. The poetry, the music, the politics and the philosophy appealed to others.