3 × 3.5 feet
Acrylic painting on heavyweight paper
2026
In Toni Morrison’s essay “The Future of Time”, she asks that we break up with our cultural obsession with the end of the world and begin imagining the future. Morrison says, “isn’t it reasonable to assume that the far distant future may not be the disaster movie we have come to love, but a reconfiguration of what we are here for? To lessen suffering, to tell the truth, raise the bar?”
It is also inspired by Quaker meetings I attended and their emphasis on being activists for peace now, and their mission to end war now, not waiting for the end of the world first. How radical.
We have to break up with the “disaster movie” that outsells everything else in politics, religion, and entertainment. We have to imagine new stories to create them. Imagination is the first step in a radically different future. Change your expectations.
Link for “The Future of Time” essay, by Toni Morrison.
3 × 3.5 feet
Acrylic painting on heavyweight paper
2026
In Toni Morrison’s essay “The Future of Time”, she asks that we break up with our cultural obsession with the end of the world and begin imagining the future. Morrison says, “isn’t it reasonable to assume that the far distant future may not be the disaster movie we have come to love, but a reconfiguration of what we are here for? To lessen suffering, to tell the truth, raise the bar?”
It is also inspired by Quaker meetings I attended and their emphasis on being activists for peace now, and their mission to end war now, not waiting for the end of the world first. How radical.
We have to break up with the “disaster movie” that outsells everything else in politics, religion, and entertainment. We have to imagine new stories to create them. Imagination is the first step in a radically different future. Change your expectations.
Link for “The Future of Time” essay, by Toni Morrison.
