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Welcome to where it all started.
December 2019: The dawn
Truncated: East Coast Elephants teasers begin to appear, hinting at the coming gallery.
January 2020: Preparing for an opening
Truncated: East Coast Elephants promotional material goes on full display, advertising the nascent gallery’s April 6th-10th opening.
Proto-Fracas designs appear throughout, marked by the original black dot eyes and thick vector eyebrows.
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A verifiable parade of elephants and their relatives was underway…
February 18, 2020
Manson Mastodon
“Manson” the mastodon was one of the first “callout” characters meant to highlight a lineage of elephants that would go extinct near the end of the pleistocene. Mastodon, being native to my hometown in southern New Jersey, were poised to be the mascots of the gallery.