Panhandle

From Rhizome Artbase
Jason Nelson
2002
Description

The artist attended an auction in the panhandle of Oklahoma and purchased a box of ephemera which included several letters written by a man who lived during the Great Depression. Panhandle is an interactive Flash animation interpreting his letters, which offer insight into life during that difficult era and reveal that the writer may have had synesthesia.

Rhizome staff
2021

Last year, I attended an auction in the panhandle of Oklahoma. With only ten dollars cash shoved in my pocket, I bought a box of old magazines and books. Folded in the pages of an old medical textbook, were a series of letters never sent. Written by a man who lived during the depression, the letters are his account of a dust storm in the spring of 1933. Not only do the letters reveal sporadically the lives of those that survived these harsh years. But also offer hints that the man who wrote them had a condition known as synesthesia.

Jason Nelson
15 May 2002
Legacy descriptive tags
Jason Nelson, Oklahoma, Panhandle
Attribution: Jason Nelson
Narrative, historical, Documentary, allegory, Abstract, utopia, nostalgia, memory, language, interact, immersion, identity, audio, Flash, Visual, Text
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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2002
Jason Nelson
static files
15 May 2002
cloning
Rhizome staff