FUTURE UNKNOWN DUE TO DRAGON CROSSING
created for the 25th anniversary group exhibition, Portals into Our Future, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, ME
curated by Ashley Page and Amy Tingle
on view June 28-August 22, 002025
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We offer Future Unknown Due to Dragon Crossing in the spirit of nobori (flags and banners commonly displayed at Japanese festivals, temples and public events). Our outdoor installation of six nobori creates a walk-able “portal to our future” in the form of an outdoor passageway leading to Waterfall Arts’ door. The project's design and messaging aim to both acknowledge and celebrate the courage, creativity and spirit that all humans will need to muster in order to meet what promises to be a wildly unpredictable “next 25 years” of artmaking and existence. As an extension of smudge studio’s ongoing work, Future Unknown Due to Dragon Crossing signals the more-than-human forces of change and reconfiguration currently playing out at planetary scales. At the same time, it summons playful and encouraging acts of creativity and imagination as means for wayfinding into the future. As the first months of Waterfall Arts’ “next 25 years” unfold for all of us, we invite visitors to witness the nobori’s unpredictable transformations by the environmental forces surrounding them.
Installation includes six 24” x 72” cotton percale nobori
nobori text includes:
Future Unknown Due to Dragon Crossing
There is a lot of Space in the Sky
One Step. One Step. One Step.
Continuation is Power.
The project also includes a two-day workshop at Waterfall Arts
ONE STEP, ONE STEP, ONE STEP:
IMPRINTING WITH UNKNOWN FUTURES
(July 25 + August 15)
A signed edition of risograph prints of each design are also available at the Waterfall Arts kiosk during open hours of the exhibition for $10 each, or from us directly + $10 shipping (domestic only).
Future Unknown Due to Dragon Crossing
edition of 18
There is a lot of Space in the Sky
edition of 24
One Step. One Step. One Step.
edition of 24
Continuation is Power.
edition of 20
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