In 1989 my 7th grade class took a trip to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. It was already one of favorite places to visit and I got right to work. I used two rolls of film to photograph almost every specimen display. My mom had them printed out at the drug store so that I could tape them all around my desk. They accompanied the xerox copies of zoological and botanical plates from our old encyclopedias.
The Fantomeka are a menagerie pulled from life, imaginings, and… more