THE BISON CAMP
or
These Future Memories
Vol 1
Spring 2018
This volume visualizes the cascades of the historical events once took place on the great plains. It was ones under the ocean, there were mammoth herds roaming once, there was ice and there the first human too. All these great events, each millions of years old, have become distant memories of our evolutionary process. They dissolved into our DNA and consciousness.
As we came into existence, we discovered things and put them into being. As our knowledge has grown as the space has grown too. The drawing is a mapping of humans and human mind on the timescale. It is part of the human project, which started with our emergence and ends with our departure for other planets.
When our knowledge reaches the climax, we either devolve or leave for something else out in the universe, next to the stars. Our departure will be a tragedy, but we will leave something behind.
I dare to attempt to Un-conceal those memories and turn them into a project, a human project that shows our past, present and future… and those blur lines that separate them.
Time progression and events
Time, like a film, progresses linearly. Our memories are part of this river, flowing from nowhere to nothing. So as film frames, each separate but part of the large, our recollections are assembly of imperfect moments. We remember things from event to event, and those threshold between the moments are where the void resides. There might be our awareness ambushing us.
Time thresholds
Intersection of time with the progression of our knowledge
The drawing’s diagrammatic quality shows the most important events throughout the history of the western prairies and the relation of a historical event to time and space, in which the reason has become our weapon for good or for bad. We have passed through eras and emerged as winners, because we utilized our reason against the barriers.
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