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EVENTUALLY EVERYTHING CONNECTS is a beautiful frieze that unfolds into a staggering 4 meters across. By the brilliant fresh talent Loris Lora, the work connects the names of creative thinkers from California in the 1950s and 1960s. Designers, singers, directors, illustrators, celebrities, and their fashionable friends all show up in the lovingly colored and blocked visuals. What we are left with is a gorgeous map of the California Modernist Movement in its entirety.

At first, casually flipping through the heavy folds, we can catch glimpses of the times: Walt Disney in-studio studying the art of Mary Blair, or Saul Bass presenting his iconic poster for  the film “Vertigo” to the approval of the film’s director, film legend Alfred Hitchcock And legends are exactly what this book brings throughout its carefully planned compositions. The research applied to every inch of the double-sided fold-out illustrates the influence every person had on another person in the roster of artistic titans.

"The work really goads the viewer, average or avid, into looking deep into its details and understanding the repercussions of the things we make in our lives."

After combing over the included connect-the-dots map of the cast, any reader could glanceover the full book and see every member. Soon after finding everyone’s place, it becomes increasingly easy to visualize the direction of the implied narrative. 

I know what most people are thinking at this point. Most people are scratching their heads trying to understand how a 4 metre long poster could tell a story. This becomes supremely easy if we take our time reviewing the map! I can tell after a review that when I pull out the full poster, I can see the impact of one person onthe next just for initial impressions, but as I cross the entirety of one side, I am left with only half a message. This is when it is time to flip everything right over and take in “Side B.”

What is most fun about having the two sides is being able to see the singular nature of each one. One is more driven by its cast of characters. This side has a regular guessing game on it, where I was racing to find out everyone on it. A section of this side had a jazz bar full of celebrities and familiar faces in it. The other side focuses more on the influence of such people, their designs, and the contributions they made to the movement and community as a whole. This side emphasizes the ripple effect the people of the first side had on the world around them.

The work really goads the viewer, average or avid, into looking deep into its details and understanding the repercussions of the things we make in our lives. It reminds us of the impacts we leave for someone down the line, over the long haul, after our time has passed us and can’t create anything more --- that it can still impact those of us left here. EVENTUALLY EVERYTHING CONNECTS is a positive exclamation into a very cynical community that it is not all about our legacies we leave, but instead about the lives we touch.

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