Artifacts, 2025, mixed media, 6 x 6 x 4 in. / 15.24 x 15.24 x 10.16 cm.

Artifacts, Jeremy Davis, 2025, mixed media, 6 x 6 x 4 in. / 15.24 x 15.24 x 10.16 cm.

These artifacts exist as my memory  - faulty and incomplete. They were made using a familiar object its existence now rendered incorrect and unrecognizable. Like historical artifacts, we apply meaning to them which may or may not be based on known facts. When previously-unknown historical artifacts are discovered to be new to science we must theorize as to their origin and purpose. With this installation, each and every artifact was made by casting in, on, or by marking making with that object, one as familiar as my own hand. Like those new historical artifacts, the viewer becomes witness to their existence, and asked to discover their purpose. In an attempt to disambiguate & obfuscate a this very familiar object, impressions were made as direct castings using the object as the mold. It did not survive this process and this negation of the original object is an important part of this work.  These artifacts exist as the only evidence of it. In this way I foresee all works by my hand becoming. They too will someday only exist as a memory of me, faulty and incomplete. It will be up to others to theorize what it is all about.