there’s not much time left but we can live forever (2025)
such an honor to do visual / creative direction for
@flawed_mangoes debut shows. i dreamed of getting to do something like this for a very long time, and it was a privilege to do this work for someone who values the visual side as much as evan does.
the only reason i got to create these visuals, and the only reason evan got to play these shows, is because of other people. this project is dedicated to them: the ones who have made this possible. our goal was to show, and hopefully immortalize, their most important memories.
i really believe there is not much time left before the world becomes unrecognizable. because of this, we have to try to be as present as possible, since all we really have is the present.
no one gets out of here alive. the majority of us will be completely forgotten and zetabytes of data will be lost forever. we tend to forget that we store much of our lives inside a very small device that can remember much more than we can, and we take this for granted every day.
to explain this as simply as i can: my childhood dog yeti is 14 and she is going to die soon. when she does, i would like her to be remembered. the people close to her will remember her, but the world will not. after she leaves her body, she will live on as long as those people live on, and when we die, she will die again. this type of death is a constant, and it happens on every scale: people, generations, eras, whole species.
but if i film yeti and put her on a 25 ft screen at a show, and 50 percent of the people in the crowd are recording the stage, and 10 percent of them put it on social media, my dog, somewhere, will live on for a lot longer than she would have before.
my intent with this project was to encapsulate what it feels like to be alive right now by making a collective memory of our generation, an offering that can live on for much longer than any of us can individually, maybe even forever.
