Another World (2), 2025

‘Where Have They Gone?’ might be related to another recent series: those of ‘Another World’, 2025. The ink and gesso tondi concentrate matters down to what might be a portal, but reads more naturally as an alternate planet. We might think of the philosophical notion of possible worlds. That, in its most radical form, argues that the actual world is special only in that we happen to live there: many other possible worlds exist equally as the way things might have been. Might these be the possible worlds in which Ballard’s mother did not die in 1964?
Text by Paul Carey-Kent