Survival Notes from the Near Future

Survival Notes from the Near Future is one investigation under a single name: a practical guide, and a meditation, on moving into a reality of computing and climate change without losing what makes us human. We need to rethink the way technologies are integrated into our existence — and embrace them for the realization of our goals.

The project's first season is a field test. Through the summer of 2026 the studio has no walls: Kyle and Jeannie are working out of a vehicle across Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado — climbing and painting in the mornings, swimming the heat off at midday, documenting in the evenings, all of it running on a satellite signal and a battery. The question underneath is simple and practical: can the whole operation be carried — made small enough, and durable enough, to keep making real, physical things from wherever the work happens to be?

The season's work

The 200. Two hundred small watercolors — half Kyle's, half Jeannie's — painted in the field and each one unique. The first iteration of a larger idea, made entirely on the move, offered for sale from the summer solstice.

Two books, bound in the forest. First editions in the Sewn Boards structure: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, chosen for what it says about the limits of language in the age of the language model, and Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which Whitman set by hand. Austere limit against catalogue-everything abundance — the conceptual engine of the whole summer.

The Periodic, field-printed. The small art newspaper, run off a laser printer and a lithium battery in the van — proof that a real publication can be made from the side of a road.

The film. An unhurried document of the making: a drone over open country, the press set up where there are no walls, the landscape doing most of the talking.

What comes back from the road gathers on the current edition week by week, and in the log; finished works will be linked here as they enter the archive.