The Evolution of an Artist’s Book, “The Encyclopedia of Mammals”

There are endless stories to tell and endless ways to tell them. This story is about a mannequin escaping captivity. To tell it, I composited events in a virtual environment. Next I changed the spatial projection from equirectangular to cube face. That is, I changed the pixel spacing – but not the pixel order – to re-express the panoramic image as six sides of a cube. Then I printed and pasted each of the six faces onto the sides of a physical cube, disrupting the linear narrative. My story is “read” by handling the cube, turning it to inspect each façade as if it were a page in a library book.