Rin Noelle and Natalie Murphy: Tomorrow Friends

Tomorrow Friends reimagines the friendly fortune-telling toys and talking companions of their childhood through a collaboration between ceramic artist Rin Noelle and technologist Natalie Murphy. Visitors are invited into a warm, playful encounter with a ceramic creature that offers tiny printed photo and fortune, echoing a time when technology felt magical, harmless, and eager to be our friend. Beneath that charm, the work reflects on nostalgia, AI, and the seductive comfort of machines that promise to know us...asking whether the stories we tell about the past and the future deserve our trust.