A Reality of Science Fiction George Bolster

In opposition to this idea, the artist gives full rein to a singular human’s purely speculative fictitious art. A celebration of what seems to be the final age for this form of inquiry for artists—even those who work with technologies and science—as somewhat free and autonomous authors.

Unlike all of Bolster’s body of work in the last eight years, for A Reality of Science-Fiction the artist hasn’t actively engaged with scientists, and consequently, it is the most visually poetic. It is quotational of research Bolster is conducting on a range of issues affecting our existence: climate change as our largest challenge, systems for making us a sustainable species, and our culpability in animal, plant and insect extinctions. Elements reference nature and the possibility of relocation to the many earth like planets found in recent years by NASA missions. The works are the beginning of a series the artist refers to as Intergalactic Romanticism, and each take cues from Casper David Friedrich, and the philosophic and naturalist writings of German Romanticism. His works detach from a present, and imagine several future possibilities, aimed at one outcome, wonder.