"The Future is Always Tomorrow" is my last body of work in the fine arts and was created between 2015 and 2017. The paintings and video depict an abandoned space habitat with an interior inspired and modeled after Centralia, PA. Once a thriving borough thanks to the coal industry, Centralia is now a ghost town felled by the very industry that once supported its population. The sculptures in this series are hand-painted large-scale 3D-printed works that make up my concept for a fleet colonial spacecraft. Each ship’s form is inspired by a different body part with each serving a specific function based on their forms. In formation, the fleet would create a humanoid form traveling through space. If I’m being honest, I really wanted to make my own sort of Voltron.

If the previous body of work, “Tomorrow Land”, was about contrasting the disappointments of the present with the optimism of the past, this body of work was about squaring a vision of the future with the messy reality of what it means to be human. Can we use technology to improve our worst impulses, or will it just be a tool to do what we’ve always done on a grander scale?