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The Little Prince / 2004



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The Little Prince - written by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, translated by Irene Testot-Ferry - further translation by John Peña / 2004

For twenty-four hour art marathon, I stayed awake and rewrote the book, The Little Prince, onto a single sheet of paper. With a manual typewriter, I typed throughout the night and watched as this sheet of paper became an illegible black mass. The images above document the process.

This project was part of a larger event sponsored by Gallery One of Ellensburg Washington. Roughly twenty other local artists took place in this 24-hour “create-a-thon.” There were pizza, dancing, and drinks and the audience was invited to observe twenty artists on display as they made art throughout the night. The art was later auctioned off to support Gallery One during an annual event known as Paint Ellensburg.