Marcus Papay
Artist Statement

The relationship we have with our past is distorted by the overabundance of things in our culture. In a time of rapid technological progression, such as now, our perception of old-fashioned objects and functions come to be a vague notion of the real thing. As we swiftly trot into the digital age and deeper into mass production we slowly forget where these things came from and what they looked like. The memories of these forgotten cultural building blocks are replaced with new versions that might or might not be accurate. It is the uncertain memory of the past that I harness and present in slightly familiar forms to stimulate curiosities of our past.

I prefer to make nostalgic objects we associate with the early days. The experimental time of a materialistic journey for convenience before Henry Ford created the mass production monster. A time when the creation of objects embodied pride that was invested into each detail. A time when you could not find a “Made in China” sticker hiding under a drawer.