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The Tower
This piece originally came from an attempt at getting over art block. I’ve found rain frogs just completely cure it and can get me into a new creative groove. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I’ll never be able to top this piece. It is my magnum opus, my pièce de résistance.I […]
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Medusa
The inspiration from this piece comes from the life cycle of jellyfish. They go from egg, to larva, to polyp, ephyra, to the adult medusa phase. After learning this, I had one thing in my mind, to depict the Greek mythological snake woman as jellyfish instead.There are numerous version of the story of Medusa, the […]
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Incitatus
When most people hear the name Caligula they think of the ruler of Ancient Rome renowned for his cruelty and so insane he appointed his favorite horse to the senate. While this might not be inaccurate, more recently historians have been questioning some of the claims. The majority of these accounts were written well after […]
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Cher Ami
Near the end of the first World War, in November of 1917 the U.S. Army Corps’ Pigeon Service was founded. Of the six hundred English bred birds donated to the service was one named Cher Ami, meaning “dear friend” in French.In October of 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, he along with 59 other pigeons assigned […]
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Pre-Code
In 1878 there was a debate on whether a horse galloped with all four hooves off the ground. The photographer Eadweard Muybridge produced The Horse In Motion, a series of photos taken in sequence of a horse galloping, proving that centuries of art depicting horses with outstretched legs, none touching the ground, were inaccurate. A […]
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Felicia
On May 18th of 1972, about 40 miles outside of Chicago, The Village Crier published an obituary for a ferret. Her name was Felicia, and the paper even included a photograph, her little head and paws emerging from a tube. She’s largely forgotten today, but in 1971 she was a solution to a problem in […]