On occasion I make short videos. Click on any of the links to view.
I made a video looking through and describing my book Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues. The book was created during the pandemic and went through many forms before it achieved its final form. Its appearance and content are very much shaped by my time in isolation. The text is a crazy quilt arrangement of lines from Hamlet and my writing on repeating themes of fear, disease, Black Lives Matter, Asian hate crimes, the insurrection, so much death and isolation, and more. Madness was printed letterpress printed using polymer plates on Arches Text wove paper. The paper puppet inclusions were printed on University of Iowa Center for the Book Chancery paper and are costumed in papers of wheat straw, sisal, daylily fibers, and abaca paste papers made by Andrea Peterson. The non-adhesive covers are flax and abaca papers made by Mary Hark for the outside and flax papers from the University of Iowa Center for the Book for the inside. Encased in a cloth covered clamshell box. Madness was funded in part by a grant from the College Book Art Association.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkMiCGEIRDk
Gertrude Has a Few Questions is a video using lines and additional dialogue for the characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a focus on Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ47SNC1-ZQ
The Tragedy of Hamlet is a video of the entirety of a handwritten rendition of the Shakespeare play on an approximately 55 foot scroll of inruyu paper. Started and completed in the isolation of 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neIppNYIHpA&t=9s
Oscar Wilder, In Earnest and Out is a video of the set of five volvelles portraying five faces of Oscar Wilde backing five faces of characters from Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. The inner wheels turn to allow the reading of lines from the play and other of Wilde’s writings. Letterpress printed using polymer plates on different shades of BFK paper, each volvelle is housed in a folder and the set with an introductory panel and line citations is enclosed in a clamshell box, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnO9TrOWmE8&t=20s
King Leer, A Tragedy in Five Puppets is a video of the five mostly paper (one is a sock) puppets from King Leer: a Tragedy in Five Puppets by Emily Martin. The puppets include a beanbag, a robot, a sock puppet, a robot, a jump up, and a flapping mouth. They present various aspects of the behaviors and language of our 45th president. The 2016 election results turned my thoughts to the character of King Lear and from there they descended to King Leer, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB2bQs1MlrM&feature=youtu.be
Desdemona: In Her Own Words is a stop-motion animation of Desdemona from Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. Her words from the play have been separated out and rearranged to give her new lines, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfGtKQ-780s&feature=youtu.be