The Tale of the Crippled Boy is an ongoing project whose end goal is a feature-length collection of animated and live film vignettes. Over the last six years, with help from only a few family members and close friends, I have created thirty-five individual characters, built the sets, photographed the work, completed and scored approximately twelve minutes of animation, while treating each element as a work of art in its own right.
Part I of the project, Three Fragments of a Lost Tale, was exhibited at the Huntington Library in 2011, and is currently at the Portland Art Museum through May 28, 2012. Part II is now under way at the studio. I hope you will be as intrigued by this world as I have been, and that you will in some way contribute to the continuation of the work. – John Frame
“Fine Art is that in which the Head, the Heart and the Hand go together.” – John Ruskin