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1975: A Prophetic Drama

Check out 1975apropheticdrama.org, the website Kate Culkin and I made for this play written by Harriet Hosmer in 1875, set in 1975. I created the animation, which is cut into short segments and embedded throughout the text of the play. Kate has annotated the text as well as provided context, a bibliography and other resources on Harriet and on women writing speculative and science fiction in the 19th century.

Here’s a couple of short clips. Merciful Powers! describes how the leaders of Turkey and Russia destroyed that part of the world. In Detained Electric Forces, we learn how electricity works on the brain.

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Beyond the Cape!

I was in a show at the Boca Raton Museum of Art curated by Kathy Goncharov. The show was about comics and contemporary art. A nine minute version of 1975: A Prophetic Drama was exhibited. I curated some animations by early animators, Winsor McCay, the Fleischer Brothers and an animation of Krazy Kat, George Herriman’s classic comic.

Watching 1975
The reading room.
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Accordion Books

I made a series of accordion books based on my drawings for the animations of the play “1975: A Prophetic Drama.” I also made a couple of video books that included clips of the animations. Here’s a few photos. I showed these at the MoCCA festival in 2019 at a table with Marianne Petit and Eric Hagan. I also showed one at a virtual A. More Store at James Fuentes in December of 2020.

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Drawings

Drawings for 1975

Here’s a few drawings for the project I’m working on with Kate Culkin. These are mostly character designs. We’ve been plugging away at this for a while, will have some more time to work on it starting in January.

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Tunnel Books:1975

I made some tunnel books based on “1975: A Prophetic Drama”, a play by 19th century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer. I am working on this project with Kate Culkin, author of Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography. This project eventually will be a series of animated webisodes and an online annotated version of the original text. I showed a couple of these at Maker Faire in 2016.

Also in this gallery, paper versions of the characters that I built.

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Maker Faire 2016 with Marianne Petit

Marianne Petit and I shared a table at World Maker Faire, called Fairy Tales, Science Fiction and Freud. Gareth Branwyn wrote a lovely piece about our work on Make. Here are a few pictures.

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Fauns and Shackles

This was a show at PS 122 in NY. I worked with Kathy Goncharov and Kate Culkin. Motorized chains ringed the room, which had photographs of Harriet Hosmer and her work, as well as my photographs.