Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to be part of the Crossmedia exhibition at Strip Turnhout, over in Belgium. Well, actually, I was invited a while ago, but it was only last week that I went over to help put the exhibition. Along with friend Goodbrey, Karrie Fransman, and Rachel Emily Taylor, we encamped in the basement of the Warande and set up our various bits and pieces around the walls and on tables. It looked something like this:

My particular piece was new for the exhibition, and was entitled Why Did You Turn? Spread out over two walls of the exhibition space, it consisted of 26 short stories, where the viewer was invited to map the connections between the various characters that appear within the pages. The final page, on the wall opposite the other twenty-five, situates the reader themselves within the exhibition space. It’s a page that was drawn and written in the room itself on the day before the show opened, so as best to integrate the themes of the show itself into Why Did You Turn? Ever the magpie. Anyway, the piece itself looked a bit like this:

Why Did You Turn? has been envisioned as a site specific gallery comic, which will change depending on where it is shown. I have no plans to print this one, but would love to see it exhibited it again.

There’s lots more pictures of the exhibition over at my Flickr page, including the wonderful things put up by my fellow exhibitionists.

Great thanks to the gang at Strip Turnhout for making this all possible, and for putting on a frankly amazing festival. More on that later in the week.