Fiona Long Art

Post Consumer Material Culture

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My end of second year show: Post Consumer Material Culture. In my imagined post apocalyptic scenario “After Day X” the resulting population will find objects from our time and wonder what to make of and from them. But what will this archaeology of the future tell us about our civilisation today?

Along with our human drive to explore the past and present through collecting and assembling objects, there is another just beyond survival drive to paint. Possibly this is a means to explore and understand the objects further, or were the objects made in response to the paintings?

The paints are made with earth pigments which could be sourced “After Day X”. Some of the paintings explore the objects and then some purely explore the materiality of the paint therefore creating a looping conversation between object, painting and material.

The whole collection is then displayed in ‘misunderstood’ furniture like drawers attached to the wall. The background paint is magnolia with a wry smile to our domestic reality today. If any paint did make it through the apocalypse, it would probably be an old warehouse full of magnolia!

Looking into a possible future like this, with the future population looking back in a sense brings us back to our present to make us examine and confront our world in a different way.

More photos of the intallation

Now for a bit of showing off: I was thrilled to be awarded with a first at 90%. Top of the year! Woo hoo! Sorry, I’ll behave myself and shut up now!