The Archaic Future

This series of paintings reflects my interest and love of early modern architecture. For me it’s all about the ideas it represented as well as the sheer beauty of the “objects.” These buildings and their designers manifest a kind of audacity in believing that architecture could make a difference not only with where we live but how we live. It speaks to an unbridled belief in man’s ability to imagine and design the future.

The paintings seek to capture something about how time transforms and re-contextualizes everything. In this case the once startlingly simple and forward-looking designs now occur almost quaint, as beautiful antiques from a by-gone era. As with most backward viewing, there is that sense of nostalgia for a nobler time – When the giants of architecture roamed the earth with their ideas of Utopia.

The past always seems nobler.