Item description
A crankie, i.e. a panoramic moving painting on a scroll controlled by two spools within a box. The scroll is titled "A Crankie in the Time of Coronavirus" and depicts events during the COVID-19 pandemic through hand-drawn images and other motifs.
Moving Image 1970
Underground Crankie & Make the World Anew 1
Jo Schlesinger
I had always wanted to learn how to make crankies but had never found the time until the pandemic shut life down. I made "Make the World Anew" during a Zoom Crankie Class in March 2020 with musician/artist Ellen Gozion and the other in a Connected by Nature class in September of 2021 with artist Isaac Bower, [which] I haven't yet been able to make it into a video.
As an avid dancer, "Make the World Anew" illustrates how my life turned upside down with hopes of reuniting with my friends again.
