Lance Letscher
The Perfect Machine

When the initial works for The Perfect Machine exhibition began to fit together in a way that suggested an underlying narrative, the story line for the children’s book began to emerge. Many of the works which followed were conceived during the process of writing the story for “The Perfect Machine,” as additional collages were needed to use as illustrations for the story’s concepts. The exhibition and the children’s book, now both entitled “The Perfect Machine,” thus came together in an unusual way, in which thoughts on an exhibition catalog became the beginnings of a children’s story, and the story in turn became the outline for the exhibition, leading to the creation of additional art works.