"what will become of me once the great meteor strikes?"

12x6x2in mixed media box that expands into a 3 ft long screenprinted accordion book, Spring 2024.

“what will become of me once the great meteor strikes?” “when borrowed time runs out, will i be missed? or will i be remembered for my thanatophobia and what remains of a lifetime spent fearing a death without closure? everything that i once was, now forever suspended in time…”.

In recent times I've been growingly concerned about a future where all proof that I once existed is wiped out. This artist's book as part of my Senior Printmedia Capstone serves as a time capsule of all the plastic that would hypothetically outlive me, containing the colorful, nostalgic vissual language I’ve come to associate myself with over the last four years of college. I have taken control of how people can access me posthumously by letting these artifacts suspend in the air, as something to forever remember me by. in reference to the large scale catastrophe that purportedly killed the dinosaurs, “the great meteor” is a euphemism for a sudden inevitable death that slowly draws closer towards the subject without them knowing. Once extinction occurs, others are left in confusion as they attempt to piece together the scattered remains