Never Forever Never For Now

2011
Edition of 25
720 mm X 1060 mm
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Silk screen print matte white ink on C-type super high gloss Fujiflex Crystal Archive medium. Screen print by K2 Screen, London.

Never Forever Never For Now is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The visualisation graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day. Each empire occupies a slice of the pie graph with a known start (+) and end (×) date. Each slice is assigned a transparency value of 10% allowing for concurrent empires to be visualised – the more empires that occupy the same period of time in history, the whiter the graph. As history progresses, humankind’s competition for wealth, resources and the relentless drive toward conquest and occupation can be clearly seen in the graph.