The Future is But the Obsolete in Reverse

THE FUTURE IS BUT THE OBSOLETE IN REVERSE

The Future is But the Obsolete in Reverse investigates the artist’s ongoing interest in the post-industrial America landscape, spaces that inhabit the fringes of the landscape and our minds, loops, mirroring, time, emptiness and entropy. It is a meditation on time, geography, geology and American space. It imagines walking backwards towards a future ruin.

These paintings and drawings culminated in a multimedia video created through a process of stop-motion animation on paintings and drawings combined with live action footage, shown in installation format. Structured in three movements, the work ruptures and rearranges past, present and future through tracing, fracturing of images, loops, and shifts in scale/distance/viewpoint. In the process of creating the video, the paintings become ruins themselves. This relates to the concepts within the work, and the video excavates the paintings, allowing their histories and narratives to be revealed. As the animations develop, the paintings become topographic “terrains” of built up layers. In the end they stand as archaeological remnants of the process.