Underneath our feet lay the remains of unspoken and forgotten pasts. We unknowingly wander everyday over the former entities that once consciously inhabited our earth. now their physical matter stains our past. Should we pay tribute? or at the very least be conscious of our human history? I believe yes. In order to build the new, we must understand our past, for it is the past that formed us. Temporal Overlaps is a project that studies, investigates, and resurfaces the past in physical form; as an artifact, the past will be transparent and subtle. This is not a project about bringing back the past, it is a tribute and acknowledgment. The archeological layers underneath us serve as our literal and metaphorical foundation. Every layer that gets covered up will be pushed into the depths of this earth, put under tremendous pressure, turned to molten lava, and then shot out of volcanos only to resurface again in a congealed form. The past is inevitably the future.
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AuthorSam Kilpatrick is a do it yourself kind of guy. Growing up in Santa Barbara California he spent most of his days swimming around kelp forests and surfing. He chooses happiness over self harming stress any-day. As a hobby, Sam shapes his own surfboards and uses them in his hometown as well as at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. He doesn’t consider himself a phenomenal surfer but his passion for the ocean and the experience drives him to keep on going back. Studying Architecture at California College of the Arts, he hopes to make a transmission from the tree-houses, forts, and functional sculptures that he has been known for. Sam believes in the simple things in life, such as the sound of the ocean, birds, dogs, and touch of a loved one. All he wants is to live happily, simply, and without modern distraction. |