Projects. Henry Darger. By Stephen Prokopoff Henry Darger was one of those people hardly anyone notices, who, seemingly, move through life as shadows. Born in 1892, possibly in Brazil or in Germany by his various accounts and perhaps bearing the surname, Dargarius, young Henry lived with his father- "a tailor and a kind and easygoing man" in Chicago until 1900. In that year the elder and crippled Darger had to be taken to live in a Catholic Mission and his son was placed in a Catholic boys' home. Amid a thick accumulation of debris- including hundreds of Pepto-Bismol bottles, nearly a thousand balls of string, old newspapers, magazines and comic books, religious kitsch and much more- his landlord, the photographer Nathan Lerner, found a creative life's work: an enormous literary and pictorial production.
The story recounts the wars between the nations on an enormous and unnamed planet, of which Earth is a moon. Darger’s particular brilliance lies in a keen organizational sense. Ivan Albright. Rothko Chapel. WILLIAM EGGLESTON. Saul Bass on the web - beta. Agnes Martin.