Artist Statement
“The Future is Unwritten Collage, 2021; screen print on 80 LB cream French Speckletone paper; 18 x 24 inches The Future is Unwritten Collage uses the aesthetics of a wall of ripped posters to symbolize the complex collisions and layers of ideologies that will shape the world's future. Climate change, corporate power over politics and the erosion of democracy versus environmental responsibility and the cultivation of peace, harmony and equality—we have important choices to make about what we value and what we want our world to be like.” — Shepard Fairey
About This Print
The Future Is Unwritten Collage is a 2021 screen print by Shepard Fairey, published by RISD. It is an 18 x 24 inch screen print on 80 LB cream French Speckletone paper, issued in a first edition of 300. The source describes the image as using the aesthetics of a wall of ripped posters to symbolize the colliding, layered ideologies that will shape the world's future, weighing climate change, corporate power over politics and the erosion of democracy against environmental responsibility and the cultivation of peace, harmony and equality. The collage motif frames a choice about what humanity values and what kind of world it wants.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 249.99. Observed range 175.0–350.0. Latest recorded sale: 2025-04-16. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.