Evidence of Us examines the material record humanity is creating in present time. Through sculpture, projection, textile installation, cyanotypes, and participatory elements, the exhibition considers what future archaeologists might uncover about our era, an age defined by plastic, consumption, and accumulation. The works function as contemporary fossils, preserving fragments of daily life and revealing the layered impact of individual and collective actions.

Across the exhibition, familiar materials - clothing, bottle caps, packaging, water bottles - are recontextualized as artifacts. A projected fossil slice distorts in response to human movement, suggesting how our presence alters the systems we inhabit. A cube constructed from discarded clothing surrounds viewers in the afterlife of fast fashion. Cyanotype “blueprints” of plastic objects line the walls like scientific records. A growing column of plastic caps becomes a visible measure of accumulation over time.

Together, the works position viewers not as observers of history, but as participants within it. The exhibition invites reflection on the evidence we are leaving behind and the future that evidence will shape.

E Tyler Burton

sculpture and mixed media

E Tyler Burton

sculpture and mixed media