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As story boards continued to emerge I found them in Harlem in the 1920s. Mae is in a yellow flapper dress that has shown up in so many panels since.
This is where she first wore it and maybe this is when she first died in it.
It seems she exists in two times at the same time. She is fresh in the 20s. I imagine Jackson is a musician in that club. Does she ever get to go in?
She is in the future as she tries to return though VR and she finds a very different memory than she left.
Jackson is watching through the window in the later version as I have seen him do many times. Usually he's looking in. This time he's looking out.
The car is waiting.
The scarf at her feet is the one she was holding when I first met her waitng in the foggy bar for him. Her dress was yellow then too, but it was a different time.
The necklace in the older version formed an infinity sign beside what looks like a four in the texture of her dress. 84 takes a lifetime.
Tetris
Tetris
I began to paint a lady in a red dress on a subway platform. Subways seemed important.
When I see her in a red dress, I often think of her as Maria. She is every girl he ever met. Maria and Mae and to some extent, Eden, are one.
She is about to jump and he is calling to her through the VR.
It wasn't clear what subway stop it would be but I trusted it would come through in clues.
It did.
I opened up my VR and Tetris Effect Connected opened without prompting. I was not going there to play Tetris but I was paying attention to everything. If Tetris opened automatically I was meant to go in there.
I found myself in Downtown Jazz.
As I played through I saw there were street numbers in the background. I followed along.
I googled what subway stop was near those street numbers and I almost lost my breath.
Jackson Heights.
That was the stop where she was about to jump.
I looked for pictures of Jackson Heights subway stop to see where the circles would go and what letters they would hold. It had to be the angle that was already painted. I found just one that matched and these were the letters that fit.
Does he get to her in time? Or does she jump?
To be continued...
The Boxer
The Boxer
I wish I had taken more process pictures of this one. It was around the same time as the Harlem Jazz Club and there used to be buildings in the background. Jackson (I assumed) was tap dancing through the streets of Harlem.
In my fantasy version of the Gaslight Broadway show I imagine The Boxer as a tap dance. Can't you just hear it?
The empty, hollow stage with just the sound of the tap shoes, vocals and maybe a high hat... slowed way down to start.
I know you got your pride and your prose
Tucked just like a tommy gun
Somewhere in the smoke
da da da da da da da
He's wearing the shoes that are at Mae's feet in front of the jazz club and what used to be street lamps were now familiar apples that have shown up from time to time since the beginning.
He danced in early layers of the painting and now he looks like he's being sucked up in a sac of light.
Is this where he leaves the shoes for Mae to find?
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