San Art Framing is excited to exhibit works by employee Brooklyn Cobb this Spring. The title ‘Bang Crunch Shriek Whimper’ comes from a 2001 paper by Nick Bostrom in which he examines existential risks to the planet and humankind. Bostrom considers events and technology, such as global warming and nuclear weapons, to develop four categories of possible Earth ending events: bangs, crunches, shrieks, and whimpers. 

This body of work is a study of the post-covid and potentially pre-post-capitalist American landscape. Cobb photographs buildings which were once stores and businesses, places of employment and commerce, but now stand vacant and unused. Her photographs are a study of living alongside “the end of times” and witnessing aesthetic shifts, while also attempting to hold hope for the future.  She contrasts images of vacant buildings and skeletal light structures with images of implied prayer and grief in order to explore how we can feel hope and uncertainty simultaneously.

There will be an opening celebration for this show on April 30 starting at 7 PM.