All the Troubles of The World
2024
Pen on paper
297 mm x 420 mm
This series of technical drawings presents machines that do not—and perhaps should not—exist. Titled after Isaac Asimov’s short story “All the Troubles of the World”, in which a supercomputer is burdened with the knowledge and anxieties of humanity.
Rendered in the precise language of engineering, the imagined devices repurpose technical drawing as a tool for speculation, fantasy, and imagined futures. These fictional machines are metaphors for the systems we build to contain our fears, and the unintended troubles that emerge in the process.
