Drawn Home: A KC Artist Sets Out To Find Home While On the Road
August 21, 2017 | Flatland | 2 min read
Recently, local artist Charlie Mylie ventured out from here in KC’s geographic middle to explore our country — its countrysides and city-sides — and understand the parts of it he doesn’t normally get to see. He’s set out (without a car we might add) also to challenge himself as an artist.
Here at Flatland we asked Mylie: Can you find home while away from home?
Over the course of 10 weeks, Mylie (working as Pop-Up Charlie) sent envelopes of drawings back to Flatland’s headquarters as he contemplated our question. We eagerly awaited the mail drop each week while following his travels on social media. When his road trip was done, our Multimedia Producers Cody Boston and Mason Kilpatrick painstakingly recreated his route and brought to life his trip — and his Drawn Home findings — in this stop-motion film.
Go Behind the Scenes
Peek into the studio as our multimedia producers go to work.
Pop-Up Charlie’s drawings came in bundles every week for ten weeks. 
More detail work by the producers. Including planning, the 10 weeks of travel for Pop-Up Charlie, and post-production work, the project was about six months in the making. 
Producers Kilpatrick and Cody Boston at work in the Hale Center Studio. 
Blink and you’ll miss this detail shot in the video — it’s one of the drawings shooting away. 
Each tiny movement on the map is a separate image. 
Multimedia Producer Mason Kilpatrick with a glue stick. The map was hand drawn then filled in with torn pieces of construction paper. 
Sticky-notes on the camera arm pleading to not be touched. For each image the camera moved a fraction of an inch, and any disturbance would mean lots of re-shooting.
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