"2,000 Years From Now"

6 x 18 inches

Monotype print, oil pastel, & graphite on BFK Rives paper

I’ve been working through how I think about the future a lot the last few years, with reference to Toni Morrison’s essay asking us to start thinking about a world thousands of years from now. This really spoke to me as last year I took some time to sit and try to visualize my 25x great granddaughter sitting in a meadow, at peace. It was so crazy to me that for all the blessings and comforts of my own life compared to previous generations of my family, I had never let myself imagine this girl. She was a hope that was too much to hope for with all of societal fire alarms rung about our downfall. Which, maybe they are true, but maybe every generation has also thought they were the last generation. Maybe it is honest but human to think the world will end when I do. The exercise of imagining future generations felt so radical and I don’t know if it will happen, but I am actively choosing to hope in it instead of in the comfort & control of preparing for the worst.

This piece is long and skinny, representing a long timeline ages passing, with a grassy green spot perched at the end, representing the meadow I hope all of our progeny can sit in, knowing peace.