Here are the remnants of a tattered mural I 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 drew caricatures around them in their own little worlds.

I thought of the mural over the years but assumed it was gone—until a classmate mentioned he had kept it. Seeing it again compelled me to search for the older faces and bring the caricatures to new life in the worlds my nineteen-year-old self had sketched. A few worlds were uncanny, as the drawings seemed to presage their futures.

Click on any figure below to see its reincarnation, built from memory, research, AI-assisted portraiture, and a conversation with that nineteen-year-old.