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| Chronicles of Fallacy |




Chronicles of Fallacy is a limited edition print series-in-progress. It consists of painterly or pictorial disturbances imposed on scanned pages from historical books — X’d out falsehoods that were expounded upon in detail and declared as the truths of their time. Fascinating pages exposing a human inclination to submit to fictional narratives, they represent wavering steps along history’s quest for knowledge. Some fallacies have been put to rest, rectified by fact over fiction while others, updated from their past incarnations, are living still in culturally normalized forms of untrue beliefs. The series is meant to examine the broad presence of fallacy intertwined with history’s ongoing search for truth.











Chronicles of Fallacy #2; 2022
Page: Nicholas Culpeper, A Discourse on the Terrible
Eclipse of the Sun,
March 29, 1652
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #3; 2022
Page: Isaac Watts (1674-1748), The World to Come, Discourses on
Departed Souls at Death and Terror of the Resurrection.

(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #1; 2022
Page: John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested
in the Works of Creation;
1722
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #4; 2022
Page: Meric Casaubon, Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches,
and Supernatural Operations
, 1672
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #5; 2023
Page: George Craighead, The Nature and Place of Hell Discovered, 1748
Galaxy Cluster: Webb Space Telescope, NASA, ESA, CSAz, 2022
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #6 (The Discovery); 2023
Source: John Wilkins (1614-1672), The Discovery of a World in the Moone..., 1638
(The British Library Board)
Limited edition archival pigment print, 19 x 22in.




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Chronicles of Fallacy #7; 2023
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.

Source: Isaac Watts (1674-1748), The World to Come, or, Discourses on the joys or sorrows of
departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection / to which is prefixed, an Essay towards
the proof of a separate state of souls after death ...
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)




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Chronicles of Fallacy #8; 2023
Limited edition archival pigment print, 18.5 x 15in.
Source: Thomas Burnet (1635-1715), Conclusion from: The Sacred Theory of the Earth
(A fallacious 1684 book, The Sacred Theory of the Earth attempted to reconcile science of the time
with Christian mythology regarding the origin, history, and geophysical future of Earth).
Printed at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1684. (The Huntington Library, San Marino, California)




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