Michael Gittings, Novalis Bench, 2021. Stainless steel, copper and enamel, 50 x 190 x 40cm. Courtesy: the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Future Ruins is a meditation on our place in nature and our relationship to the environment we seek to control, without ever fully seeking to comprehend either nature itself or the power it has over us.

Using stainless steel as the medium for both industry and nature, the artist seeks to further confound and confuse our role in these processes. The usually organic means of decay has been achieved by hand with industrial machines. The warped and beaten skin of limbs, which are set to devour the once industrial constructions, are themselves a product of similar industrial processes.

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