A Glimmer Exodus Sketchbook brings together over a dozen works in various media exploring speculative realizations of intergalactic travel, planetary exodus, and themes of resistance and revolution. I uses the word “sketches” in this exhibit as a conceptual device to frame the breadth of the works as a collection. Bringing these works together as part of a multi-nodal “sketchbook” is meant to underscore the personal, handmade production of the work, thereby exploring how sci-fi images can be approached by an audience as merely the sketching of an artist as opposed to the reductive outcomes found in blockbuster cinema. This handmade, DIY approach correlates formally and conceptually to the impulse found in punk and hip-hop to make the culture we want to live in. Permission is an illusion and resisting power is proactive not purchased. The Glimmer of this sketchbook are a loosely-knit cohort of visionaries, radicals, and creators. They have leveraged their gifts and their work to connect with a cosmic intelligence, enabling their organization and departure from Earth, vowing to make a new world. Like this sketchbook itself, the work of the Glimmer is a process of trial-and-error: mistakes are made, the future is built, and transcendence is possible. |