THEY TOLD THE FUTURE BACKWARDS
Oil pastel on paper, pins, aluminium foil, 2x6 meters, 2006. We were into time-travel at the time, something was drawing us towards a certain feel of some kind of ancient future, an aesthetics of brutality and optimism.
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A young boy walks through the forests, up a mountain, and into a cave to see some wise men about the future. They sit gathered around a fire-place inside with long beards. He asks them about the future, and they start foretelling, but they speak backwards. The young boy has heard this from somewhere, so he has brought an old-fashioned cassette-player and records their weird mumbling. When the wise men are done with their foretelling, the boy plays the cassette backwards.
Then he knows the future
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THEY TOLD THE FUTURE BACKWARDS
Oil pastel on paper, pins, aluminium foil, 2x6 meters, 2006. We were into time-travel at the time, something was drawing us towards a certain feel of some kind of ancient future, an aesthetics of brutality and optimism.
.
A young boy walks through the forests, up a mountain, and into a cave to see some wise men about the future. They sit gathered around a fire-place inside with long beards. He asks them about the future, and they start foretelling, but they speak backwards. The young boy has heard this from somewhere, so he has brought an old-fashioned cassette-player and records their weird mumbling. When the wise men are done with their foretelling, the boy plays the cassette backwards.
Then he knows the future
.
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