To Those Who Create the Future presents a single-channel video and thirteen abstracted photographs shot on location at the Atacama Desert in Chile, and the Salton Sea and Mojave desert in California.

As DeWitt Cheng writes, they operate as “a kind of sociopolitical camouflage,” where painterly surfaces “reflect subject matter of disquieting contemporary import.”

Jonathan T. D. Neil
suggests that the works “extract color and shade to the exclusion of all other axes of differentiation,” enacting a visual process that parallels the extraction taking place on the land itself.

Thanks to Muse Frame for display support.
Visual Art Source
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UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry
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Full image catalogue
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Themes+Projects, San Francisco, 2025

13 Color photographs on Dibond panel
36x36/48x48/60x60 inches
Original works

Single Channel 2k video (1920x1920)
4 screen synchronized playback
Runtime 09:41
Score: Aaron Lepley
Music: Bob Villain
Displays: museframe.io

Stills assistance: Liz Miller Kovacs
Curator: Bryan Yedinak

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