As a designer, Prairie is influenced by her training and background in architecture, where her goal has been to uncover an archetypal solution while exploring all possible morphologic directions, and at the same time to revel in the act of detangling a constellation of relationships between all things in humanity’s everyday lives as portrayed through written words and music.

She is interested in the raw totality of tectonics and how a minimalistic but striking drive behind design and construction can impact the shape of the encompassing force within a theater piece. To apply such a paradigm to design for performances, Prairie reaches for a visual clarity that emphasizes the fleeting moment where, for truth to emerge within the beholder, reality has to make way for belief.