This is the story of Jack Crazyquilt's arrival in the desert.

It's presented by itself, outside of the sequence of the story, because it isn't really a part of that sequence. Crazyquilt was my master's thesis project at the Maryland Insititute, College of Art during the spring of 2001. It began as an exploration of the search for enlightenment, but it became a mythologization of my experience of MICA and an exploration of my creative process.

In addition to the seven panels you see here, which were originally displayed as 13" x 19" prints, there is both a musical and a motion graphics component of the project. The musical portion I have released as a CD; it consists of a handful of songs created for and inspired by the project. All of that is available on my MP3.com site.

Unfortunately, the motion graphics portion will not be available online for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the smallest I've been able to compress it in Quicktime is about sixty megabytes. Yes, there are other formats, and I could have compressed the sound further, but I have these irritating things called standards, and posting a multi-meg file with grainy video and choppy audio is beneath those standards.

And so, without further ado . . . .