(automaton, chance, Letraset and black marker on plantable A5 paper)

In this work on paper, the word future already appears written, as a promise or an inherited projection. In front of it, a motorized automaton, handcrafted from wood and iron, generates scribbles through repetitive, random movements in a constant loop. The machine neither writes nor constructs a narrative; it persists in a mechanical action that continuously interferes with the reading of the word.

This dynamic can be interpreted in light of Mark Fisher’s thought. The accumulated traces evoke a present that endlessly reproduces itself, generating activity without producing new horizons. The word future remains visible, yet it becomes progressively surrounded by a network of marks that neither erase nor develop it.

While the piece refers to the contemporary difficulty of imagining the future, it also leaves open the possibility that new relationships and forms of meaning may emerge from these conditions of chance.

The support is plantable paper containing seeds, so the surface is not only a record but also a potential site of transformation. This condition introduces an open temporality: what today functions as the support for the mechanical gesture may, over time, become another form of living materiality. In this context, what appears to be a tracelessly unordered drawing can also be read as a form of latent organization, a set of marks that opens up relationships beyond the control of the device.