Future Myth Chapter 02 is the evolving extension of the artists’ enquiry into the role of the ‘Avatar’ as a psycho-spiritual and technological symbol of humanity’s future. With the foundations of Chapter 01 built on the articulation of the feminine, Chapter 02 introduces the masculine as a paradigm in which ‘Future Myth’ asserts further balance and complexity within the cosmology of the Avatar figures.

The initial figure in this series evokes a male support for the Avatars unfolding landscape. A male figure perched in reference to Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’, yet more in a pose of resistance than contemplative. Beneath his foot, a carefully stacked pile of Gold bars are the object of contemplation; for a young African figure – Gold is a symbol of protest, and speaks to the centuries of foreign wealth that has been extracted from Africa’s rich mineral deposits. This Avatar signals a critical shift in cultural and political focus for the ‘Áge of Aquarius’ in which future Myth is situated; namely, autonomy and agency for Africa, and oppressed indigenous people around the world will be fundamental to the shaping of a new earth.

While Chapter 01 hosts the pantheon of feminine powers in a cosmic, higher-idolised framework; Chapter 02 charts a dialogue downwards to the material and physical imaginings of the future.