Artifacts from the Future

Obsolescence is an obsession of mine. It has the unique power to syncretize multiple moments in time. The process of decay or ruin, by definition, indicates a past state. The present is apparent in the act of abandonment. And the future works in the background through erosion, chemical decay, and entropy to initiate a new state. In abandoned drive-in movie theaters, vintage signage, and overgrown back lots, one can find the shifting currents of economics as they yield to the colonizing forces of nature. Obsolescence is a natural cycle. Yesterday’s heroes become today’s junkyard mascots. But there is light at the end of this transformation. Abandonment opens the future possibilities of a site. Feral fauna/flora, graffiti artists, and novel cultural production all suddenly have a new space to create. My work is always seeking to find signs of that process of turnover as a method of time traveling. Embedded in the endpoint of one cycle is the initiation point for the next cycle. Long live obsolescence.