Futura
This idea [from a drawing done in 1994] is eleven years old but painted in late 2005.
In my paintings I have been interested in timelessness and past time and with Cassandra we have someone who can forecast the future but all would believe her to be lieing ie she even foretold of the Trojan Horse and no one believed and all but foregot her telling till the events occured.



I was interested in a hypothetical person in the future having a bust done or resting perhaps an electronic cap of some sort on a bust.
Mainly I am concerned with the future.
In a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the timeline that has yet to occur, i.e. the place in space-time where lie all events that still have not occurred. In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now).

The future has always had a very special place in philosophy and, in general, in the human mind. This is true largely because human beings need a forecast of events that will occur. It is perhaps possible to argue that the evolution of the human brain is in great part an evolution in cognitive abilities necessary to forecast the future, i.e. abstract imagination, logic and induction. Imagination permits us to “see” a plausible model of a given situation without observing it (therefore mitigating risks). Logical reasoning allows one to predict inevitable consequences of actions and situations and therefore gives useful information about future events. Induction permits the association of a cause with consequences, a fundamental notion for every forecast of future time. I have placed these blocks in the same organization that Steven Hawking uses to explain Future Past and Present in this painting detail of a painting called Niobe. The blocks are in a position that equals Steven Hawking's sketches and diagrams on time, time travel and multi dimensions. Also featured are Marcel Dumchamp's ideas of how a shadow is a projection of a three dimensional being then why not say we are similar projections of a fourth dimensional being or of the spiritual realm ?



Despite these cognitive instruments for the comprehension of future, the nature of many natural and social processes has made forecasting the future a long-sought aim of many people and cultures throughout the ages. Figures claiming to see into the future, such as prophets and diviners, have enjoyed great consideration and even social importance in many past and present communities. Whole pseudo-sciences, like astrology and cheiromancy originated with the aim of forecasting the future. Much of physical science too can be read as an attempt to make quantitative and objective predictions about events.

The Future also forms a prominent subject for religion. Often religions offer prophecies about life after death and also about the end of the world. The conflict in religion between the knowledge of the future by God and the freedom of human will leads, for example, to the doctrine of predestination.

The shell represents Golden mean is also sometimes used as a synonym for the golden ratio (also called golden section, golden number, or divine proportion), the irrational number approximately 1.61803..., which has applications in several fields including mathematics, aesthetics (especially art, architecture, and design), and science.