The Order of the Universe

This series began with a chance encounter: a worn 1979 Chinese book of medicine that echoed my experiences with illness and environmental toxicity. 

The project unfolds along a speculative timeline. After societal collapse, a future civilization discovers fragments of emoji imagery in failing technology. Believing these images to be sacred warnings from a lost era when technology eclipsed human capacity, they create four volumes—Order of the Universe, Vol. 1–4—to record and teach this knowledge. Centuries later, the books have decayed, and another civilization reconstructs what remains, restoring pages as artifacts worthy of preservation.

Prisma colored pencil, kozo paper, black acrylic marker: flooded with matte medium. 27×39 inches shown as diptychs float mounted in white welded aluminum frames & uv acrylic