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The Apocalypse as a Metaphor pt.1 (2016 Version), HD, 5.1 Sound, 2013-2016 Nine Eleven (The Marker), 20x24" C-Print, 2011 Ground Zero (Wake), 2012, 30x34.5" C-Print, 2012 Hoodlumz (The New Tribe), 30x38" C-Print, 2012 United, 30x32" C-Print, 2013 Each Other (The Outsider), 40x50" C-Print, 2014 Man and the Eternal Flame pt.1, 24x30" C-Print, 2012 Man and the Eternal Flame pt.2, 24x30" C-Print, 2012 White Noise (The Awakening), 30x30" C-Print, 2011 Product Placement (Malthusian Catastrophe), 30x40" C-Print, 2013 Outer Body Experience (The Shaman), 30x38" C-Print, 2012 Allseeing (The Eye of Providence), 30x38" C-Print, 2012 Hideaway (Hunter), 30x38" C-Print, 2012 Dump (Return To Innocence), 30x40" C-Print, 2011- Vampiric Empire (Preachers of Death), 30x38" C-Print, 2011- 13s.39m.11h.28d.01m.86y-28°23′18″N 80°36′13″W (The Accident), 20x24" C-Print, 2013 Suspense (The Witness), 24x20" C-Print, 2015 Shadow Figure (The Other), 30x38" C-Print, 2011-2013 A Diaster Movie (Armageddon), 30x40" C-Print, 2011-2012

We Soon Be Nigh!
2011 - 2016

The phantom continues…

The walls of time and space collapse and take on a formless entity that is able to drift through our sense of memory. In a landscape that holds a specific memory —often intense moments of hard-boiled emotion and grand tragedy, the human psyche is turned and provoked. There is an index that exists between the planes of reality in which we can see and feel.

In a time of cinematic Armageddon, endless documents of natural disaster and environmental shifts, and ancient wisdom foretelling of the Apocalypse, belief is not a necessary vehicle into a dry sense of doom. The future has always been uncertain but certain events have shifted the priority of this feeling into the foreground —it is all around us now. It has escaped its prison of our memory and has manifested itself into the medium.

Tracing my memory I look back to find the origin of this sense of uncertainty towards the future, this sense of, what's going to happen next? and holding a pejorative view towards the future. We Soon Be Nigh! starts off at the birthplace of this phantom of doom and continues to reference both the past and the future, in visual storytelling that is both documentation and construction.

all work © brendan george ko, 2008 - 2025