Objects in The Future Are Closer Than They Appear

Art

by Kenneth MacSween

“Objects In The Future Are Closer Than They Appear”

This phrase popped into my consciousness while we were driving back after a wondrous visit to Coral Castle (Florida).
Within seconds of coming up with the wordplay I noticed the initials: “T. B.” graffitied on a cement barricade by the highway and I thought: Time Bridgers imagery!
This piece from 1979 is totally hand drawn. The medium is ballpoint pen, graphite and colored pencil. As for scale, the car image, for example, is 6 inches across.
The power transformer thingies are from a photo on the cover of an old Niagara Falls Power Company annual report and fortunately I still have it so I can complete that part. The car is from some old Datsun auto ad and the other is a collage (elements of which were mentioned earlier).
I haven’t decided yet how I’ll finish this, but I was thinking of a black and white background made of my trademark improvised shapes and forms, my “pictorial language” as it were.

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See here or the flash version for a more visual experience…