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Where do ideas come from—- out of thin air, as if by magic? Or is it in the choreography, the behind-the-scenes, the work with the sleights at hand to generate creative solutions from percieved restrictions?

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MISDIRECTIONS (2022)

What begins as a biography of the magician, Werner "Dorny" Dornfield, broadens into a mosaic of many riddles and revelations.  Misdirections is a 68 page chapbook, printed with embedded clues that correspond with an affiliated web-based audiovisual trove. Following clues from the book, attentive readers can unlock further anecdotes, images, and vignettes, including original animations by Portland illustrator, Bill Boyer

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MISDIRECTIONS! A SERIO-COMIC CATALOGUE (2022)

Drawing together archival images, original animations, video vignettes, interviews, and live narration adapted from the book, Misdirections is a live cinema performance-lecture par excellance! Paired with a variety program of cine-magical feats, recent showcases have included videos, films, and performances by: Bill Boyer, Stephanie Hough, Andrew Kim, Kerry Laitala, Aaron O'Neal, Kathleen Quillian, Jeremy Rourke,  Cindy Webster, Weird Faction, and others

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EXHIBITION RECORD

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NOV 2022: PNCA, Portland, OR

OCT 2022: Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA

MAY 2022: Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA

MAY 2022: Turn! Turn! Turn!, Portland, OR

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MORNINGS OF THE MAGICIAN (2017 / 2023) 
A companion piece to Misdirections:  Idiosyncratic culinary rituals are explored through family history and a metaphorical framework of alchemy. Redesigned from video into an interactive story at this link (sound on, and best viewed on desktop or laptop)

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