Four Hours Lost
Mixed media on 20 panels (6” x 6” each), assembled as a unified work
Materials: Acrylic, spray paint, wood, plastic, vinyl, paper
Series: The Great Migration
 
In Four Hours Lost, Law Blank assembles a grid of twenty compact canvases—each 6 by 6 inches—into a single larger composition that reads like a fragmented transmission from a future that’s already made its choices. This dimensional mixed-media work draws from the artist’s Great Migration series, which contemplates humanity’s exodus from Earth in pursuit of planetary colonization.
 
Each tile functions as a timestamped emotion or echo: glitchy text, silhouette cutouts, and bursts of industrial color collide in poetic disarray. Words like “DRIFT,” “SURGE,” “EMBER,” and “FIZZ” suggest fleeting signals or commands—vestiges of a world sacrificed in the name of progress. The tactile layering of wood, plastic, vinyl, and paper gives the work both literal and metaphorical depth, reinforcing the tension between what was left behind and what was never fully understood.
 
Like a black box cracked open after a cosmic catastrophe, Four Hours Lost asks viewers to reconstruct the narrative of a species too eager to escape. It is a chronicle of cultural static, nostalgia, and warning—equal parts memorial and mission log.
 
This piece is a visual score: a twenty-beat meditation on time, loss, and the cost of ambition when the urge to abandon outweighs the will to repair.