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WARNING – This is a quick and rough video sketch and only a sketch. I was considering not putting it up here but documenting the process is half the point right? NO FEAR! With thesis opening only 17 weeks and 3 days away, it is time to wind down the research phase and ramp up the making phase. This is an early concept test quickly and roughly put together in iMovie. (Which has its advantages and disadvantages.) What I am exploring here is the idea of cropping images so we are unable to see all of Harry’s face.

November 12-17, 2009 // Operation Desert Eagle

My horse might have had a name but I was in the desert still the same.
Operation Desert Eagle was a resounding success. I was able to speak to Harry’s two surviving sisters—Angeline Hancock and Edna Rae or Rasky as Harry called her—and I also had the pleasure of interviewing Harry’s daughter Sharon, and Harry’s sister-in-law Olive. Olive, in addition to being Harry’s sister-in-law because she is Melba’s sister, Harry and Olive were in-laws because Bernard (C.B.), Harry’s brother, was married to Olive. Double Trouble!

I spent a lot of time in the Cemetery documenting Harry’s final resting place. On Sunday morning I held a little ceremony where I placed a red stone from Omaha beach and some of the soil from Opheusden on his head stone. It was a touching and unexpected moment of closure for me. Although I have a lot of work left, a lot of love still to give to this project, and one final act of doing to perform, I have come close to “Finding Harry.”

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