Too Late

"Too Late": A cyborg from the "Beyond Humanity" series. It has arrived at a dead Earth, holding a hazmat bag and eating an apple—a new Adam.
A close-up of the "Too Late" cyborg's head. This post-human successor, made of e-waste, is a witness to humanity's squandered legacy.
"Too Late": An e-waste cyborg finds Earth destroyed. It holds a hazmat bag for our polluted wasteland and an apple for a new beginning.
A close-up of the Voyager Golden Record plaque on the "Too Late" cyborg's chest. A symbol of humanity's hubris, found by our successor.
A "scrim" view of "Too Late." This motherboard cyborg is a cautionary tale about our environmental legacy, left to clean up our waste.
See "Too Late" and its shadow. This e-waste sculpture, which followed the Voyager plaque, serves as a dark reflection of humanity's hubris.

Too Late is built around a bitter irony at the heart of the Voyager program. We launched the Golden Record into space as an introduction to humanity — a message to whoever might find it. The cyborg in this sculpture followed that message home, guided by the plaque on its chest. It arrived to find nothing left.

Humanity had already destroyed itself and the planet. There's nothing to do but clean up and start over.

What the sculpture holds:

Environmental legacy. The hazmat bag is the inheritance — a grim accounting of what our environmental negligence actually left behind.

A new beginning. The cyborg eating an apple invokes the biblical Adam, positioning this post-human figure as the first inhabitant of a world humanity forfeited. The forbidden fruit is the future we squandered.

The irony of hubris. The Voyager plaque — sent into space as a proud announcement of our existence — brought a successor here to find we'd already vanished. We broadcast ourselves to the cosmos while quietly destroying the place we lived.

57”h x 27”w x 3”d: hard drive platter, motherboard, aluminum photo print, copper conductive tape.