TECHNOFOSSIL 1.1

or Phylogenetic analysis of historical data systems (rusted).

Available $6500
4' x 5' - 2020
Concrete, clay, silicone oil, plaster, utility paint, epoxy resin, acrylic, oil, damar, uv archival spray on stretched and repaired canvas.

The first in my ongoing series of Technofossils, this body of work aims to interrogate the physical structure and material legacy of digital technologies. Imagined as archeological remains from the distant future, they stage our present digital infrastructure as speculative relics. They have an understructure modelled after microchip architecture, which was first built in concrete, resins, and other industrial materials then heavily mechanically decayed. As the surface was abraded, holes appeared in the back of canvas which were dutifully repaired. The final paint layer was modulated with silicon oil, an industrial lubricant from the machines of heavy manufacturing; which splits the paint pore and simulates the surface of rust. An intricate map of digital oblivion, this painting asks what physically remains when digital culture subsides.