Communication with forefathers in 2608

A visionary scene rendered in delicate watercolour and ink, this work imagines a ritualistic or technological communion between the present and the distant past, set against the vast temporal horizon of the year 2608. Pepperstein's characteristic blend of psychedelic mysticism and Soviet-inflected utopian aesthetics creates a dreamlike visual language in which ancestral memory becomes a subject of futuristic speculation. The lightness of the cartridge paper ground lends the work an almost archival quality, as though the image itself is a document recovered from a civilization yet to come.