2025

Afterglow

A Speculative Artifact Depicting Disco’s Lost Future

A speculative artifact about disco’s lost future.

Afterglow project description panel — Project description, designed for riso.

Sketches

Cardboard prototype

Fusion CAD rendering

3D-printed casting patterns

Sand mold with positive

At the foundry with sand molds

Raw bronze casting fresh from the sand

Welding

Welded steel display case

Drilling on the press

Designing stencils in Photoshop

Cutting stencils by hand

Bead-blasted stencil pulls

The finished Afterglow piece

Afterglow asks: what were those demolitioners trying to destroy that night? How did they succeed? How did they fail? What future might we be living now if disco had kept growing?