Gertie Crankie

Embroidered cotton, wood, foam, air dry clay, acrylic paint

2026

A kinetic sculpture celebrating the origins of the animated medium, created for Old Tricks group show at Upper Market Gallery in San Francisco. 

Gertie's disobedient dance, an action that animator/ co-star Windsor McCay repeatedly asks Gertie not to do in the original 1914 film, is looped endlessly.