submission :

first draft hand in. masters thesis.

i have been attempting to create a landscape of event and experience;

therefore, every aspect of my work should assist in that endeavor.

part one of three.

the tenacious anthology of the mud.

to be followed by :

the exploratory instrument of territory.

the transmogrification of the vessel.

then they were tangible.

in articulating my position regarding the real versus the simulation, some of the drawings after they were brought out of the virtual. still working on them, and the others.

the characters.

these characters, these people, each a mixture of legend, perception, and reality, become the rules that define this journey along the mississippi. each has their own goals and agenda. each is from a different time and place within american culture. each has their own priorities and intuitions. each has a philosophy to offer.

the characters have deep memory that span time from a century to millenia. each has their own method of creating within this workshop and provides different arguments and ways to use contemporary technologies. each provides different solutions to issues that we are currently dealing with, through their history from a particular aspect of american past.

how can each apply their knowledge to the condition of the here and now, creating new possibilities for understanding and development.

kingfish oldreive

found while walking down the mississippi amongst boat shoes. he knows of the progress. the understanding of human needs and desires. the fundamental motives of fear and love. attempts at infrastructural development, the buildings of roads and bridges. expanding rights and freedoms. a circus performer turned politician. the history of louisiana.

satchmo louis.

joining following a supply stop in new orleans. the sounds of his music enticing along the street. bringing the history of struggle and hardship, spirit of human survival. yet full of energy and life. origins in africa. the history of slave trade and the civil rights movement. knowledge of hard work and maintaining faith in others.

yagen haricots.

she joins after canoeing up to the vessel amidst the journey. heading north on the river towards the legendary cahokia in present day illinois, attempting to find histories of this former sprawling metropolis waiting for her within the surfaces of past. knowledge of agricultural methods native to the indigenous chitimacha of southern louisiana. trying to find her ancestral origins.

menlo park.

an inventor. a scientist. an experimenter. a self taught man from a background of skilled artisans. expertise in multiple fields. joining at the formations of the river. bringing the geological memory of the mississippi and the history of america through westward expansion and industrial revolution. a machine himself.