December 21st & 22nd
Interactive Time Slots: 11am-1pm, 2pm-5pm

Evergreen Brick Works, Koerner Gardens
550 Bayview Avenue
Drop-in, children and families/all-ages

It’s winter… and December, which means it’s the end of the year, and the final entry in Hand Eye Society’s  4-season Game Curious programming at Evergreen Brick Works! Artists Kara Stone, Rekha Ramachandran, and Julia Gingrich will be presenting an interactive installation during Evergreen Brick Works’ annual Winter Village entitled Blocked Future Future Blocks. Join us in reflecting on the changing seasons, as well as the changing climate as we pass into another year on planet Earth.

Blocked Future Future Blocks consists of quilt panels made from used plastic, water/ice, and hand-written notes addressed to our future selves. It asks us to question our relationship to waste, remainders, and quickening environmental change imposed by humans.

We are living in the anthropocene–an era where humans have made an everlasting impact on the earth’s environment and weather patterns. This new era is tethered to our high levels of consumption and waste, and will carry us into the future. Plastic is an everyday object that is an excess manifestation of the wild levels of consumption being encouraged across our planet. Plastic is a remainder, its life span stretches far beyond its use span. It sits at the landfill; it floats through the ocean. It’s a trace of having been there.

This interactive work consists of a quilt panels made from used plastic (cellophane, bubblewrap, packaging, etc.), and filled with water/ice. It asks each of us to question our relationship to waste, remainders, and quickening environmental change imposed by humans. Participants are invited to write a note to their future self on scraps of paper that are then tucked inside a quilt block and surrounded by water. As the weather changes the water surrounding the note will freeze and melt with the ice obscuring and revealing the text. What kind of future do you envision for yourself?

ARTISTS: Kara Stone, Rekha Ramachandran, Julia Gingrich