Mythological Beasts of the United States Poster Patrice Lawrence A Victorian scientist and inventor

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time

I tell them that I belong

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass

Jacob van Ruisdael and Gerrit Berckheyde both repeatedly pictured the city – the former with his ‘Haerlempjes’

Mythological Beasts of the United States Poster Patrice Lawrence A Victorian scientist and inventorEuropean settlers arrive in a new world, vast and unknown to them. In the space where fear and uncertainty creeps in, they realise that something else was on that ship with them, the mythical beasts of their ancestors. Creating the USA map was a great chance to see how myths can travel. It turns out that it wasn't as monster movies would have us believe it was it was not in a mysterious crate festooned with ancient symbols in the hold of a ship