The Archivist

My name is David Kenney.

I started drawing imagined architecture in 2019; brutalist dwellings based on basic geometric shapes.

I began to think up stories to add context to these buildings. Over time, these fragments of stories became a discernible narrative; a storyline with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I have been slowly piecing the story together over time. The world I’ve built is called The Constant State, and the story has three parts, or arcs.

My practice now revolves around and lives within this world; this story. As I make a painting or sculpture, I often write a chapter of the story to accompany it, and vice versa. As I develop my style and experiment, the story takes tangents, twists and turns. The world is being built and the story is being written one painting or sculpture at a time.