NO FOUNDATION is pleased to present The Beginning of the End, new work by Jason van Horne.

This series, a collection of miniature dilapidated buildings and piles of debris, depict an urban landscape after a catastrophic event has decimated the world's population. Devoid of people, the structures crumble and collapse while the natural environment slowly regains its foothold on what has long been the domain of humans.

Inspired as much by the miniature sets used in disaster flicks of a by-gone era as by biblical warnings of the end times and current concerns of environmental disaster, these models are meant to invoke our ongoing fear and fascination with the end of the world as we know it.

As a scavenger some may say hoarder of "found objects" van Horne enjoys finding little bits and pieces that can double as other things when playing with scale. Obsolete products and consumer waste provide almost all the building materials needed. Cardboard, plastic product packaging, advertising fliers, business cards, bits of old toys and electronics, along with handfuls of twigs and dirt are combined with some traditional scale modelling accessories to create scenes of urban decay.