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#Youngblood
Future Myth Chapter 02 is the evolving extension of the artists’
enquiry into the role of the ‘Avatar’ as a psycho-spiritual and tech-
nological symbol of humanity’s future. With the foundations of
Chapter 01 built on the articulation of the feminine, Chapter 02
introduces the masculine as a paradigm in which ‘Future Myth’
asserts further balance and complexity within the cosmology of
the Avatar figures.
The initial figure in this series evokes a male support for the Ava-
tars unfolding landscape. A male figure perched in reference to
Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’, yet more in a pose of resistance than con-
templative. Beneath his foot, a carefully stacked pile of Gold bars
are the object of contemplation; for a young African figure – Gold
is a symbol of protest, and speaks to the centuries of foreign
wealth that has been extracted from Africa’s rich mineral depos-
its. This Avatar signals a critical shift in cultural and political focus
for the ‘Áge of Aquarius’ in which future Myth is situated; namely,
autonomy and agency for Africa, and oppressed indigenous
people around the world will be fundamental to the shaping of a
new earth.
While Chapter 01 hosts the pantheon of feminine powers in a
cosmic, higher-idolised framework; Chapter 02 charts a dialogue
downwards to the material and physical imaginings of the future.
76 x 35 x 30cm (White Marble Dust and Resin)
