Every week, this musical radio program focuses on a different letter of the week, following the alphabet’s order from A to Z (and neatly completing the cycle twice a year). The English alphabet hath 26 letters, and the calendar year 52 weeks. Everything was exactly as Gorey's drawing, all down to the tiniest details.Electronic/Exploratory, Hip Hop/Groove, Jazz, Pop/Rock, Roots, World We all had a blast and I feel very fortunate to have experienced it.Īfter Willard stitched together the images, the outcome was perfect. Little kids dressing up and (with my awesome makeup skills) looking incredibly ill, bored, scared, and yes, even dead. Let's do this!Īfter meeting up and confirming that this was a pretty badass project, I went off scouting for wiling candidates, costumes, and props to match as closely to Gorey's artwork as much as possible. It's not everyday someone asks if you could help photograph kids acting as if they're about to die, so I crossed my fingers and sent him a message. Willard's style and composite techniques are incredible and absolutely perfect to pull off a project like this. I'm still envious of his amazing talent, but in a much different way ) The irony is our artistic drive landed us both in the photography world. We both graduated high school, went our separate ways, and then reconnected online years later. (I'm pretty sure I was envious of Willard's artistic talent, but shhhhh, he doesn't need to know that).
On the rare occasions when we happened to be at the studio at the same time, we bickered so much our teacher had to keep us apart, just so we'd shut up. We were tweens when we took a private art class from the same teacher.
Willard and I have known each other for many, many years. Then I realized the artists who could help. I wanted to bring it to life with photography and I spent nights losing sleep thinking about how I could do it. I kept thinking about the otherworldly, eerie, and macabre book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey. Happy Birthday to the man who laughed in dark places.
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