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01. Elegy #33

Auto-generated animation.
Started December 20, 2025
Created December 21, 2025 at 01:21 PM EST
Updates at 21 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube.com, Grays Anatomy Textbook, Breitbart.com, William Shakespeare: King Lear.
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02. Elegy #32

Auto-generated animation.
Started December 11, 2025
Created December 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM EST
Updates at 46 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube.com, Newsmax.com, Whitehouse.gov, Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
1781, D'Arcy Thompson: On Growth and Form, 1917
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03. Elegy #35

Auto-generated animation.
Started February 01, 2026
Created February 09, 2026 at 01:38 AM EST
Updates at 38 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube: Minneapolis Protests, Wikipedia: Stephen Miller, & Google.
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04. Elegy #30 (An American Darkness)

Auto-generated animation.
Started October 04, 2025.
Created October 07, 2025 at 01:59 PM EST
Updates at 59 minutes past each hour.
Source: Yahoo.com, ice.gov & nationalguard.mil
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05. Elegy #34

Auto-generated animation.
Started January 15, 2026
Created February 09, 2026 at 10:54 AM EST
Updates 54 minutes past every hour.
Source: Youtube: Minneapolis Protests, Wikipedia: Stephen Miller, & Daily Weather Maps 1989-1990.
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06. Elegy #8

Auto-generated animation.
Started March 05, 2025.
Created November 11, 2025 at 07:24 AM EST
Updates at 24 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube.com, Hannity.com, & Brietbart.com
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07. Elegy #20

Auto-generated animation.
Started April 14, 2025
Created April 15, 2025 at 09:03 PM EST
Updates at 3 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube.com, Whitehouse.gov, Google.com, & CNN.com
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08. Elegy #31

Auto-generated animation.
Started December 02, 2025
Created December 02, 2025 at 12:37 PM EST
Updates at 37 minutes past the hour.
Source: Youtube.com, Whitehouse.gov & CNN.com
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09. Elegy #26

Auto-generated animation.
Started August 26, 2025
Created November 02, 2025 at 12:06 PM EST
Updates at 6 minutes past the hour.
Source: ice.gov and nationalguard.mil
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10. Elegy #15

Auto-generated animation.
Started March 28, 2025
Created March 28, 2025 at 02:10 PM EST
Updates at 30 minutes past each hour.
Source: Wikipedia.org, Youtube.com & Foxnews.com
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11. Elegy #21

Auto-generated animation.
Started April 23, 2025
Created December 15, 2025 at 09:55 AM EST
Updates at 55 minutes past each hour.
Source: Youtube.com, & Newsmax.com
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12. Elegy #18

Auto-generated animation.
Started April 05, 2025
Created May 02, 2025 at 07:51 AM EST
Updates at 51 minutes past each hour.
Source: John Milton's Paradise Lost, Yahoo.com, Youtube.com, & CNN.com
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13. Elegy #14

Auto-generated animation.
Started March 26, 2025
Created December 04, 2025 at 06:10 PM EST
Updates at 10 minutes past each hour.
Source: Yahoo.com, Youtube.com & Foxnews.com
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14. Elegy #12

Auto-generated animation.
Started March 21, 2025.
Created April 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM EST
Updates at 15 minutes past each hour.
Source: Yahoo.com, Youtube.com & Whitehouse.gov
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15. Elegy #27 (for Z.S.)

Auto-generated animation.
Started September 17, 2025.
Created October 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM EST
Updates at 58 minutes past each hour.
Source: Yahoo.com, Youtube.com, Sam Cooke: Wonderful World Lyrics, & G. A. Wentworth: Textbook of Geometry, 1898
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16. Lament #35 (For M.L.)

Watercolor and pencil on paper. 4" x 8.25"
2025, Signed and dated on the back.
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17. Lament #8

Electrostatic print, collage on paper. 9" x 12"
2025, Signed and dated on the back.
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18. Lament #2

Electrostatic print, acrylic, and pencil on paper. 9" x 12"
2025, Signed and dated on the back.
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19. Twittering Machine #4 Image/Performance (They Love Me)

Canvas tarp, iron oxide pigment, acrylic medium, white feathers, and a projection of a Millrace Cruft from April 18, 2023. The cruft video includes school photos harvested from the internet, images of climate change, a streaming weather forecast, and a speech by Donald Trump.
Created and performed at the School of Media Arts in the College of Arts and Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Dimensions variable. Duration 45 minutes. 2023.
Video courtesy of Pirooz Kalayeh.
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20. Twittering Machine #1 Object/Performance

Wood, metal, paper, feathers, wind chimes, speaker, ipod shuffle, and a remixed audio file of Donald J Trump announcing his candidacy for President of the United States mixed with Frank Sinatra singing "Summer Wind." 15"x28"x78", 2017.
Video courtesy of Jay Needham
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