"Alternate Worlds Series: Ticket to a 2016 Beatles Concert"

This is a work from the artist's "Alternate World Series", a project on the idea of “alternate worlds” or “parallel worlds”… This is a theme that has been explored in science fiction literature (e.g., The Man in the High Castle), and in television and film, but less so in art and design. In this project, we have images of objects from alternate worlds, carefully collected and curated. The concept, of course, is to explore the vagaries of history: how decisions and accidents shape our path through time. This particular piece is a ticket to a Beatles concert. In our world, the Beatles broke up in 1969, and the members of the band each went on to separate careers. In our world, moreover, John Lennon tragically was killed in 1980, and George Harrison died in 2001 from cancer. In Alt-World 2372-6m, however, all the members of the Beatles survived well into the 2010's, and the band stayed together (with some solo career sidelines). This ticket is to a 2016 concert in New York in that alterna