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Unique Art Show at SSU’s Appleton Gallery

            Opening Monday, Nov. 1, “They Won’t Stay Dead!” is a unique art show at Shawnee State University’s Appleton Gallery in the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts.
            The project consists of 6,755 images that the artist, Chase Melendez, has captured from George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and turned into physical objects. The images were manipulated, altered and affected by the artist’s hand. They were then edited back together to correspond with the running of the original film.
            “I captured the images with an easily attainable video editing software,” Melendez said. “Once the movie was captured in its entirety, I printed all 6,755 of them out using a home inkjet printer.”
            Melendez numbered each picture in pencil beginning with 00001. After all the images were altered, he transformed them back into a digital format scanning them one at a time. They were digitally cropped and imported into a video editing software.
            Melendez arranged them in sequential order and synced them to coincide with the original “Night of the Living Dead” audio track. The movie with all the images is running during the show and all of the thousands of images are arranged in crates in numerical order.
            “I’ve always loved movies and it’s a combination of my fine art side and movies coming together,” Melendez said.
            “They Won’t Stay Dead!” will be at the Appleton Gallery until Monday, Nov. 15. The show is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.