Tyler Brett (T&T), Bridge (sundown), 2009, inkjet, 93x36 in.
Over the span of ten years, I collaborated with Canadian artist Tony Romano as T&T to produce multiple series of architectural models, drawings, sculptures, orthographic panoramic projections and music related to the portrayal of a futuristic humanity in the process of inventing various modes of habitation and recreation. Although playful and improbably optimistic in appearance, our peculiar carnivalesque enclaves set against blue skies allude to a post apocalyptic fantasy, where do-it-yourself hunter-gatherers repurpose the debris of early 21st Century technology. Infrastructure has been repurposed and reduced in scale in the form of decorative stationary machinery & farcical energy making contraptions. In these projections, and the corresponding work I produced for my MFA thesis exhibition, the themes suggest a forecast that our current foundational human built systems will undergo monumental imaginative adaptations; signaling an impending shift toward an unchartered civilization where speculative engineering will provide the framework for the creation of a functional utopian refuge.
Tyler Brett (T&T), Freight train: cultivator, irrigator, bird traps, and vanguards, 2009, inkjet, 180x18 in.
Tyler Brett (T&T), Freight train: turbines, crops, harvester and forager, 2009, inkjet, 180x18 in.
Tyler Brett (T&T), Hunter, 2009, inkjet, 180x18 in.
Tyler Brett (T&T), Caboose, 2009, inkjet, 180x18 in.
Tyler Brett (T&T), Odyssey Panorama, 2009, exhibition catalogue booklet detail.
Tyler Bett (T&T), The Odyssey Panorama, 2009. MFA thesis exhibition, Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan (exhibition catalogue booklet excerpts including examples of the work of T&T).