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A principle for scaling attention, starting with the physical body and gradually moving outwards from there -
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An insignia for an evolving creative collective emerging from the ritual work of In Fragments at High Acres Farm -
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A conversation on The Stoa exploring the anatomy of ritual and the concept of ‘Life Art’ by way of In Fragments -
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An essay exploring the embodied practice of Life Art via the origin story of In Fragments -
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The full set of 21 films that make up In Fragments, with a running time of just over two hours -
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A brief introduction to the world of In Fragments, exploring its origins and the notion of ‘Life Art’ -
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A fragmented view of the 21 films that make up In Fragments, with a running time of around a minute -
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A series of 21 DIY rituals to alchemize old family patterns at High Acres Farm, documented via 21 short films -
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A ritual to invite a community of friends to plant their hopes and dreams — epilogue to In Fragments -
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A short film (2:03) documenting the ritual In Fragments — part 21 of In Fragments -
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A short film (6:50) documenting the ritual Electric Webb — part 20 of In Fragments -
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A short film (8:27) documenting the ritual See Glass — part 19 of In Fragments -
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A short film (3:08) documenting the ritual A Witness To Life — part 18 of In Fragments -
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A short film (10:12) documenting the ritual Hexagram — part 17 of In Fragments -
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A short film (9:45) documenting the ritual Paper Weight — part 16 of In Fragments -
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A short film (13:42) documenting the ritual Give Up The Ghost — part 15 of In Fragments -
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A short film (5:25) documenting the ritual Hall Of Mirrors — part 14 of In Fragments -
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A short film (5:53) documenting the ritual Use A Hammer — part 13 of In Fragments -
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A short film (12:50) documenting the ritual Phase Change — part 12 of In Fragments -
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A short film (17:20) documenting the ritual Apprenticeship — part 11 of In Fragments -
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A short film (7:40) documenting the ritual Make Me A Vessel — part 10 of In Fragments -
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A short film (5:10) documenting the ritual Space Suit — part 9 of In Fragments -
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A short film (3:31) documenting the ritual Scarecrow — part 8 of In Fragments -
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A short film (2:23) documenting the ritual Equidistant — part 7 of In Fragments -
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A short film (3:15) documenting the ritual Individuation — part 6 of In Fragments -
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A short film (2:04) documenting the ritual Process Of Elimination — part 5 of In Fragments -
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A short film (1:18) documenting the ritual Not A Single Point — part 4 of In Fragments -
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A short film (2:00) documenting the ritual Urim And Thummim — part 3 of In Fragments -
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A short film (3:58) documenting the ritual Linestone — part 2 of In Fragments -
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A short film (3:51) documenting the ritual The Joyous Lake — part 1 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to install a new energy grid using a network of 27 lightning transformers — part 20 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to honor the primordial lake with a collection of broken fired mirrors — part 19 of In Fragments -
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An insignia encapsulating a year of Shamanic studies with a cohort of fellow students known as ‘The Firebirds’ -
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A ritual to disperse the limitations of a pernicious land use agreement — part 17 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to clear the burden of my mother’s fearful dreams — part 16 of In Fragments -
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An insignia showing time set free — for a trio of elegant timepieces tracking the cyclical rhythms of nature -
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An insignia for a video series made in the early days of Covid, composed of the handwriting of some of its isolated guests -
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A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for an old Latin word meaning the attentive noticing of things as they are -
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A gathering place in Shelburne, Vermont, evolving out of its long history as a private family home -
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An imaginal future vision for the buildings and thousands of acres of land surrounding High Acres Farm -
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An identity system for a design and construction company inspired by the work of Christopher Alexander -
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An insignia for a conference at the University of Vermont exploring the converging climate crisis -
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An interactive website for a local craft education nonprofit, helping them to modernize their operations -
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An experimental protocol for using conversation as a way of cultivating presence -
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A pictographic oracle of rock art images created in the Utah desert — a mirrorlike refuge from the Internet cacaphony -
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A presentation at National Geographic in Washington, D.C. about data, storytelling, and ritual -
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A conversation following my Master Talk as IDFA’s 2017 ‘guest of honor’ discussing We Feel Fine and In Fragments -
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A presentation in Amsterdam’s beautiful Tuschinski Theatre at IDFA, exploring 15 years of life and work -
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An essay exploring ten non-fiction works that shaped my way of seeing, commissioned by the IDFA Film Festival -
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A ritual to honor the closing of the Cowbird digital storytelling community — part 18 of In Fragments -
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An insignia and website for a local dance nonprofit, enabling them to build a network throughout rural Vermont -
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A ritual to conjure a creation myth using lake water and linestones — part 21 of In Fragments -
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A reflection on Network Effect — prepared with the International Center of Photography -
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A ritual to banish the spectre of my grandfather’s alcoholism — part 15 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to forge homemade glass in a hillside furnace using the cremated remains of my mother — part 12 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to source and prepare the ingredients to forge homemade glass from scratch — part 11 of In Fragments -
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A three-day immersive experience for a group of mentors and friends to help plan the future of High Acres Farm -
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A ritual to craft a funeral urn for the cremated remains of my mother — part 10 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to witness the cremation of my mother two days after her death — part 9 of In Fragments -
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An interactive (and satirical) portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity -
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A ritual to rectify patterns of fear using an effigy dressed as my mother — part 8 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to connect with a group of mentors and friends — part 6 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to arrange a set of broken fired mirrors into a rectangular mosaic — part 14 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities — part 13 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to collapse related phenomena into a single plane of perception — part 7 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to examine the particles in a pile of pulverized powder — part 5 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to pulverize a collection of gray and white stones into powder — part 4 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to utilize a set of gray and white “seeing stones” — part 3 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to align the white veins in a collection of ancient gray stones — part 2 of In Fragments -
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A ritual to witness the many changing moods of a primordial body of water — part 1 of In Fragments -
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A proposed project to celebrate Google Translate’s milestone of 100 languages supported, commissioned by Google -
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A proposed installation about online self-expression, commissioned by Twitter -
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A proposed project about the evolution of consciousness on Earth, commissioned by U2 for their world tour -
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A brief introduction to Cowbird — presenting a universal life story told through 227 individual stories told by the community -
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An interactive portrait of performance artist Vito Acconci, created in New York City shortly before his 75th birthday -
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A presentation at Fabrica in Italy, exploring an overview of ten years of life and work since my fellowship there, as part of a workshop -
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A proposed design for a house at High Acres Farm, based on two golden rectangles at 27 degree angles to one another -
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A manifesto on the promises and perils of so-called ‘Big Data’ — commissioned by The New York Times -
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A brief introduction to I Love Your Work — exploring the everyday realities of those who make fantasies -
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A portrait of the realities of those who make fantasies using 10-second video clips shot every 10 minutes for 10 days -
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A presentation at the Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis, exploring the journey leading up to the creation of Cowbird -
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A presentation at Creative Mornings in Brooklyn exploring my decision not to take investment money for Cowbird -
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An essay exploring the ways in which software is becoming a new kind of drug, with proposals for a corresponding ethics -
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A presentation at the EG Conference in California, exploring the origins of the storytelling project, Cowbird -
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A presentation at PSFK in New York exploring the personal and cultural forces that gave rise to Cowbird, including the Occupy movement -
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A storytelling platform and public library of human experience with nearly 100,000 searchable stories -
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A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — using hundreds of brightly colored balloons -
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A presentation for Pace Gallery discussing I Love Your Work, as prepared for their Social Media exhibition in New York -
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A conversation with Seven Days discussing Cowbird from in and around the Shelburne Farms ‘Breeding Barn’ -
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A presentation at AIGA in New York exploring the psychological effects of intensive software programming on my experience of life -
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A 443-day practice of making a photo and short story each day — posting them online each night before going to sleep -
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An installation of interconnected memories using a network of color-coded strings running from picture to picture -
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A presentation at the Shift Happens conference in York UK, exploring various storytelling projects -
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A book exploring human emotions as understood through Internet data, published by Simon & Schuster -
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An essay exploring the state of the digital world in 2009, and the challenges of building healthy spaces online -
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An interactive library emphasizing the interconnection of ideas, filled with hundreds of interviews with fringe thinkers -
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A proposed project to travel from the southern tip of Africa to far eastern China, exchanging gifts along the way -
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A presentation at a ‘Flash’ conference in the UK, exploring the evolution of new creative mediums such as digital art -
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A fractured collage of sexual desire among men and women, created in two hours at a live event in New York -
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A proposed project to gather stories from China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, commissioned by Kodak -
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A brief introduction to I Want You To Want Me, exploring the search for love and self in the world of online dating -
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An interactive portrait of the search for love (and self) through the world of online dating, commissioned by MoMA -
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A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine consecutive days in Barrow, Alaska -
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A presentation at the EG Conference in California, exploring experimental storytelling projects like The Whale Hunt and Balloons of Bhutan -
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A presentation at PopTech in Maine exploring interactive storytelling, including a live experiment with the gathered audience -
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An interactive system for generating new constellations, showing modern mythology as deduced from global news -
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A conversation with Coolhunting discussing physical sketchbooks and digital data-based projects like We Feel Fine and Universe -
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A presentation at TED exploring data-based storytelling projects We Feel Fine, Yahoo Time Capsule, and Universe -
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A time capsule (the world’s largest) whose contents were beamed into space as binary code using a laser -
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An interactive portrait of passion — from love to hate — using real-time data collected from blogs -
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A brief introduction to We Feel Fine — exploring the world of human emotions through large-scale blog analysis -
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An exploration of human emotion through large-scale blog analysis, via six interactive movements -
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An interactive visualization of real-time science news as a playful particle system, commissioned by Seed Magazine -
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An insignia design for an annual competition at Princeton University celebrating the beauty of science imagery -
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An anonymous question and answer system with only one rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else’s -
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A proposed installation using sheets of white paper, commissioned by the Ground Zero Freedom Center -
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An insignia for a news technology startup based in New York, showing the morning sunrise composed of many sources -
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An interactive mosaic of real-time blog images beginning with the letters V, O, R, and N — for Vorn Magazine -
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A brief introduction to 10x10 — exploring global news coverage each hour through photographic mosaics -
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An interactive mosaic of the pictures and words that define the time, updated each hour by analyzing global news -
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A satirical website for a fictitious company selling products that capitalize on America’s fear of terrorism -
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An experiment in computer vision tracking techniques: the classic game of limbo as an act of surveillance -
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An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, displayed as a very long sentence -
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A set of infographic maps commissioned by the International Networks Archive at Princeton University -
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A set of travel journals filled with watercolor paintings, drawings, plants, insects, and other ephemera -
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A comprehensive design system for a breath mint company, including logo, packaging, website, and other materials -
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An illustrated story about an Icelandic woman who travels by coincidence through all 50 U.S. states in alphabetical order -
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A news clustering service that automatically finds multiple perspectives on major international stories -
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A publication about world cultures via first-person travel narratives — created at Princeton University -
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A hand-painted mural for the Princeton dorm room known as ‘The Zoo’ — depicting its ten residents as jungle animals -
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A quarter design proposal for the State of Vermont, part of which was used in the coin’s final design -
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A set of 27 traditional plein-air landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts -
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A set of drawings from life made during four years of study at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts -
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A set of pen-and-ink drawings of buildings and objects at a local museum, commissioned for their catalogs -
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A set of satirical cartoons created at Deerfield Academy, inspired by the legacy of political cartoonist Thomas Nast -
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A collection of drawings depicting imaginary superheroes and other fantasy figures, created throughout childhood -
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A collection of artwork created in the first fifteen years of my life, much of it at St. Bernard’s School in New York City
