Ryan F Kennedy: "a Present for a Future from a Past"

A series of works integrating various forms and media emulating life, defined as "anything with the condition for living and death". Performance and sculptural works are involved in these five to ten year process in which the works will oscillate between the two states of life. Alive through audience participation in the burial of the sculptures, poetry, video and continual evolution within the earth. In memory the works come and go as time advances towards its prescribed unearthing or death.

Owners of the works are equipped with keys to the works, written GPS coordinates (ie 25.3450° S, 131.0361° E) as well as a date informing them when, if they choose, they can excavate their work. Below are images of the sculptural works and their burial, which occurred during exhibiting on August 24th 2014. The above post includes other forms these works have taken, a screen sonnet and a poem entitled "a Present for a Future from a Past".