David Allen Burns & Austin Young / Fallen Fruit

Digital collage printed on fabric and vinyl

a permanent artwork in the elevator at The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida

All Tomorrow’s Parties (Bungle in the Jungle) transforms the elevator at The Bunker into a luminous installation artwork as a temporal portal. Built from photographs the artists have taken in West Palm Beach just after hurricane Mathew in 2016, everything in the artwork comes from edible flora found in public spaces—banana plants, coconuts, sea grapes—fragments of a landscape. These elements create a kaleidoscopic trompe-l’œil that references West Palm Beach and transforms the elevator into a vertical time machine. Like the title of the artwork suggests, pop music legends illuminate  the culture of becoming—the shimmering optimism of youth, the belief that something extraordinary is just beginning. All Tomorrow’s Parties (Bungle in the Jungle) echoes that spirit, using the vertical motion of the elevator as a metaphor for perpetual conditions of flux. As the doors close, visitors enter a hot-pink vortex where fragments of fruit and flora create a devotional, almost resurrection-like space. This installation invites viewers to witness how nature, myth, and memory revives themselves again and again, always embracing the future. West Palm Beach itself was formed by a mythic beginning: a shipwreck more than a century ago scattered tens of thousands of coconuts along the shoreline, accidentally branding the region as a tropical paradise. This origin story functions like a modern creation myth—unexpected, hopeful, and formative— much like another Florida legend: the Fountain of Youth, the enduring promise that renewal is always possible and that transformation is always-ever so slightly-within reach.

All Tomorrow’s Parties, Fallen Fruit (Austin Young & David Allen Burns), 2025. Commissioned by Beth Rudin DeWoody, the work extends the collective’s long‑standing practice of public engagement and conceptual installations that investigate community, shared experience, and public space through symbolic narratives and immersive forms.