2025

Colored pencil, graphite, ink on paper

In The Book of Predictions (1980), L. Stephen Wolfe and R. L. Wysack prophesied that by the year 2025, the world would reach a state of eternal peace and prosperity, unified by a single common language. For this work, I translated their prediction into an abstract form, treating the structure and pattern of their language as a set of data coordinates.

The letters of each word in the prophecy were plotted on a 26 by 26 point grid and connected into a continuous loop, transforming the linear text into a cyclical visual system. The colors of the text below correspond directly to the looping forms above, while the shapes in the lower section are derived from possible geological formations of Pangea Ultima.

This process acts as a reverse translation. Just as the original premonition must have been sensed intuitively before it was constrained by words, this work attempts to return that linguistic structure to a purely visual, preverbal state. The prediction itself, now proven false, remains significant. The failure of such prophecies reveals less about the actual future and more about the human necessity to create it. Our compulsion to predict specific utopian outcomes, like a unified language or a unified continent, speaks to a deep, collective desire to impose order and hope onto an unknowable timeline.