New Primordiality

On the cyclical nature of civilizations and the persistence of human mark-making through archaeological memory and technological decay.

The series occupies the separation between forms of the distant past and the retrospective view of high technology. Symbols are not a product of civilization but a precondition of it. All work is a speculative artifact.



  1. Containment archaeology (acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16")
  2. Untitled (graphite on paper, 16.5 x 11.7")
  3. Surface dweller (acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16")
  4. Untitled (UFO) (graphite on paper, 11.7 x 8.3")
  5. Untitled (acrylic on canvas, 28 x 36")
  6. Untitled (acrylic on canvas, 28 x 36")
  7. Untitled (graphite on paper, 11.7 x 8.3")


2019 - 2020

  1. 1. Containment archaeology, Matt Congdon, 2020
  2. 2. Untitled, Matt Congdon, 2019
  3. 3. Surface dweller, Matt Congdon, 2020
  4. 4. Untitled (UFO), Matt Congdon, 2019
  5. 5. Untitled, Matt Congdon, 2019
  6. 6. Untitled, Matt Congdon, 2019
  7. 7. Untitled, Matt Congdon, 2019