Urban streets are filled with discarded objects—fragments of household items, machines, and furniture that have become obsolete through everyday consumption. When the forms of these contemporary urban remnants are compared with those of ancient archaeological artifacts, one begins to notice shared formal tendencies and unexpected correspondences that transcend time. It seems that an archetype of form exists between objects belonging to different historical periods, linking the ancient and the contemporary. Perhaps these same archetypes may also extend into an imagined future.
In developing this work, I visited archaeological museums and ancient cities throughout Europe, exploring the imagery of the installation by drawing connections between the forms of archaeological artifacts and those of discarded objects found in contemporary urban environments. Taking these timeless forms as a sculptural language, I layered multiple temporalities—the ancient, the contemporary, and the future—within a single installation. Through this overlapping of time, I sought to bring into presence an archaeological space belonging to an imagined future: Archaic Future.
