POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE SERIES

This series of 24 paintings from 2009 to 2011 are oil and charcoal on canvas on panel.

A postcard is more than a picture-place message. Postal cards, unlike digital messages, are a vehicle; a physical image of information, an implied method of transmission, a source and destination. They have substance in real time.

While these paintings may appear as pictures (of somewhere), they also exist expressly as physical objects (like a postcard). Evidence of the visible support (the painted panel that is also part of the image) anchors the work in the present reality. They are paintings which are not only a place in the mind, but documents at hand. They are a synthesis of past and future vision and they exist now. But they are not now what they were meant to be. Now is not a map of tomorrow.

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Postcards from the Future 20, oil on canvas on panel
16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm)

Postcards from the Future 23, oil on canvas on panel
16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm)

Postcards from the Future 14, oil on canvas on panel
12 x 14 inches (31 x 36 cm)

Postcards from the Future 13, oil on canvas on panel
12 x 14 inches (31 x 36 cm)

Postcards from the Future 9, oil on canvas on panel
14 x 12 inches (36 x 31 cm)

Postcards from the Future 22, oil on canvas on panel
20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm)

Postcards from the Future 7, oil on canvas on panel
14 x 12 inches (36 x 31 cm)

Postcards from the Future 19, oil on canvas on panel
12 x 14 inches (31 x 36 cm)

Postcards from the Future 24, oil on canvas on panel
12 x 14 inches (31 x 36 cm)