Hepburn Hall 1973
Here lie the tattered remains of a mural created for fun during my sophomore winter in Hepburn Hall at Middlebury College in 1973. I clipped faces of hall residents (and friends) from New Faces and recast them as figures from literature, history and popular culture.
I'd thought about the mural over the years but assumed it was gone — until recently, after a few unlikely inquiries, a classmate replied with three startling words: “I’ve got it.” Seeing it again set me off on a search for the older faces of those New Faces - and for how they might now inhabit the worlds created for them when I was nineteen.
CLICK ON EACH CHARACTER below to see a contemporary version pop up, built from memory, research, AI-assisted portraiture, and a conversation with that nineteen-year-old.
This began as a private work of memory and affection: a way of revisiting a mural I made at nineteen. The images are interpretive, AI-assisted, and sometimes fanciful. They are not meant as definitive portraits or biographies.
If you find yourself here and feel uncomfortable being included, just let me know. I will alter the image, the name or take the portrait down.