* * * Entropy Coil Friedrich 1908 - 1908 R.I.P. * * *

Dearest friends and friends not yet met, gather and please allow me to share with you a tale of sorrow and struggle and dreams.

This is the tale of a young child, who at the tender age of seven discovered that she wasn't born like other girls. She previously had an inkling that something must be amiss, but was unable to pinpoint the problem at hand.

She would sit and dream for hours. Sometimes it was thinking of the past and she would ponder why she had memories from working in an african mine, or living in a Native American nomadic tribe in the early nineteenth century... and sometimes she would wonder about the future. As she laid on her parents water bed in 1982, she would think of what kind of mother she would turn out to be, occasionally conjuring names for her future children, or trying to figure out how many and what genders would be the most advantageous mix to bring into the bright world of youthful imagineering. On rare occasion, she would try to figure out what it might feel like to have another living being growing within you, and this idea touched her.

But it was not to be. One terrible day, while at the doctor's office, a most unsettling discussion would take place!

This was the discussion that lead to her learning for the first time what it is to be born intersex, and to discover that intersex boys and girls like her are unable to bear children of their own. Unaware of it at the time, she was plunged into a depressive gloom that would not lift until many years later.

Now she has been told many times of adoption as an option, and it really is a fine one... but she wants her children to spring forth from her own substance. She is fully aware this is vanity, but she cannot help herself, so she begins dreaming once more.

This time, the dreams consist of mechanical spring wound gearing and electrical complexes for massively parallel input processing. She conceives a sick idea... to bring her children forth not from flesh, but from thought and aesthetics!

Thus her mad quest is begun, her first born was stillborn due to a series of strange miscalculations, but she felt so close she knew that further research would bear better results the next time!

I would like to mention that this has multiple lights on it that are activated by throwing the knife switch on the box, and that there is a wind up music box in it that plays a lullabye. There is also a working clock and hygrometer included in the mechanical displays.

This piece will be be on display at Suite100 Gallery in downtown Seattle, Wa from September 12th until October 5th. Show details are here:

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If you can come down and check it out, Libby Bulloff and I have been working very hard to make this show an amazing event for the American Steampunk communities, and especially so for the west coast/northwest section of the movement. I am confident that you will not be disappointed by the show, and for those of you across the globe reading this, the gallery website will be showing all of the work as well!