25 IMAGINARY WORKSpictures"25 Imaginary Works" started as a challenge to myself to imagine a series of impossible artworks that I never under any circumstances could actually complete. And then, oddly, they became a series of actual works -- a series of 25 picture frames with calligraphy in silver on black paper. Then I started the video series of 25 Imaginary Works. . . So a series of impossible to make works actually spawned fifty actual works. Ironic, huh? A selection of the works which will never be created by Jen Frankel: a tongue-in-cheek look at art. HOPE IS A FLOWER SEE Imaginary Works Part 1 DAYDREAM SUPERHERO SEE Imaginary Works Part 2 LEFT INSIDE IN THE COLD SEE Imaginary Works Part 3 DIAMONDS SEE Imaginary Works Part 4 BEDROOMS OF BOREDOM SEE Imaginary Works Part 5 OF TRILOBITES SEE Imaginary Works Part 6 FIDDLING FOR DUMMIES SEE Imaginary Works Part 7 HOW DO YOU GET TO BROADWAY? SEE Imaginary Works Part 8 JAVA CLATCH SEE Imaginary Works Part 9 ONO FOR A NEW MILLENIUM SEE Imaginary Works Part 10 THE WHITE LIST SEE Imaginary Works Part 11 CAN'T KEEP IT FRESH SEE Imaginary Works Part 12 NO MOTIVE REQUIRED SEE Imaginary Works Part 13 PRECIOUS METALS PR SEE Imaginary Works Part 14 THE ARRGH OF WAR SEE Imaginary Works Part 15 FRACTURED HISTORY FUTURE IMPERFECT SEE Imaginary Works Part 16 IGNOROMNIBUS SEE Imaginary Works Part 17 LEVITY AND LITERARY GRAVITY SEE Imaginary Works Part 18 A VERSE TO CHANGE THE WORLD SEE Imaginary Works Part 19 THE BACK OF THE LOOKING GLASS SEE Imaginary Works Part 20 A BOOK WITHOUT BITE SEE Imaginary Works Part 21 Lame Elsie the Cow-Shark and the Musical Fruit SEE Imaginary Works Part 22 OUT AND INERTIA SEE Imaginary Works Part 23 SHE'S NOT TALKING SEE Imaginary Works Part 24 SOMETIMES A TUNNEL IS JUST A COINCIDENCE SEE Imaginary Works Part 25
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The 25 Imaginary Works series started off as a kind of a joke: to create a description of something that could never be achieved in actual media of any sort, but that would stimulate the imagination. Now they exist as twenty-five framed calligraphic treatments, digital versions of the same, and as post- and greeting cards. Eight have been made into short animated films. So twenty-five bits of impossibility have developed what you might call a life of their own, entirely outside the realm of the abstract and yet still without the potential (or at least the likelihood) to be rendered the way they themselves say they should be.