Work Under Our Labour Grows is a series of considered meditations on the nature of work today and tomorrow. More pictures than proposals, our interest is in expressing possible forms this aspect of living – central to our evolution as a species - might assume as the conditions originally prompting our adaptation are encountered only by a few, their proxies, or simply cease to exist.

The title is borrowed from a passage in Paradise Lost, where Eve describes the “pleasant” labor of tending to the garden, while observing that this natural state of activity only begets more work. This paradox has driven humans toward the pursuit of continued optimization. But what will we do when that project has succeeded? Will cultural, social, technological motivations other than optimization emerge? Will a new project of returning to essentials - returning to “the garden” - replace other agendas?

Few subjects are more central to issues of global equity than labor, and, to William Gibson’s famous observation, “the future” will always be distributed unevenly.  Nevertheless, all humans have been affected in some way by the changes brought by technology, for better or worse. Our intention is to open windows to futures without overt value - some good, some bad, some indifferent - but all possible.