Ciao Alessandro!

The "father" of my drawing is no longer unknown. Upsettingly, I figured out his identity the same night I was finishing the entire project ! 

If you compare the signatures, they look like undeniable twins, and are very traceable to the image I am using. The artist must be Abraham Walkowitz, and the year my object was created must be 1918! Have you heard of this artist or did you know about his fixation on Isadora? I now realize this is a very obvious conclusion to reach about my object because Walkowitz the only modern (American emigre) artist to draw her thousands of times, there are reportedly around 5,000 of these works, and at Bryn Mawr we are home to a single one. 

I've been feverishly working on the videos and thinking about how to represent Abraham's obsession and present the narrative of his work in experiential glimpses and communicate the reactionary, affecting power of Isadora's substance in my own form. The day I received your reply I was still in the studio! Last night, I finally felt finished with my work there. 

There are 18 total videos in different lengths and styles, because I wanted to mimic the sensibility of Abraham's seemingly excessive production of repetitive but slightly varied drawings of Isadora.

Also, would you be able to update the gallery to correct a misspelling with my last name (it's Thirumurti 🙂) and to include Abraham's identity? 

Grazie mille Alessandro! 

Meena