‘Unknowable Artefact’ forms part of a new body of work that imagines the traces, remnants, and material culture of a civilisation that is fundamentally unknowable; perhaps extinct, perhaps never fully understood. Through the depiction of enigmatic objects, ceremonial forms, biological remains, and fragmentary relics, the series explores the limits of interpretation and the human impulse to construct meaning from incomplete evidence.
These imagined artefacts occupy a space between archaeology, speculation, and fiction. Their ambiguity invites viewers to contemplate not only what such a civilisation might have been, but also how knowledge is shaped by absence, distance, and conjecture. In turn, the work reflects back on our own material legacy, prompting questions about how contemporary and historical human artefacts might be understood by other species, future intelligences, or distant observers attempting to reconstruct who we were from the fragments we leave behind.
‘Unknowable Artefact’ forms part of a new body of work that imagines the traces, remnants, and material culture of a civilisation that is fundamentally unknowable; perhaps extinct, perhaps never fully understood. Through the depiction of enigmatic objects, ceremonial forms, biological remains, and fragmentary relics, the series explores the limits of interpretation and the human impulse to construct meaning from incomplete evidence.
These imagined artefacts occupy a space between archaeology, speculation, and fiction. Their ambiguity invites viewers to contemplate not only what such a civilisation might have been, but also how knowledge is shaped by absence, distance, and conjecture. In turn, the work reflects back on our own material legacy, prompting questions about how contemporary and historical human artefacts might be understood by other species, future intelligences, or distant observers attempting to reconstruct who we were from the fragments we leave behind.
