March 05, 2003

The Future We Were Promised?

The Future We Were Promised, an exhibition of proleptic nosalgia by the science fiction illustrator A. C. Radebaugh at Lost Highways in Philadelphia.

It's all here in pen and ink and watercolor: bubble cars and tailfins, submarines and zeppelins, propellors and searchlights, cloverleafs and freeway mandalas, needles and zigarats.

In the context of the current times these brokedown palaces and crashed dream machines of the Gernsback continuum all look very fragile, flat and faded.

Posted by mgk at March 5, 2003 11:13 PM
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