Fascination: Modernism DisrUPTed

Fascination:

What is a fascination? For me understanding the fundamentals, dare I say the principles, in which a critical view on design requires. What is it that I appreciate in the natural and composed environments that surround me? What catches my eye at first sensational glance and what keeps me in-terested with sustained story behind it. These elements make up my so called appropriated identity, not of my own creation but of an organized curation. The purely sublime manifestation of witty invention mixed with the cleverly altered classics. At first I am only drawn by the substanti-ated and intellectualized but the emotional and romantic come through in moments of self professed weakness. Its a melange but continuity exists with consideration for aesthetics, formal integrity, proportion, material, context, and message.

Modernism Disrupted:

Perhaps it is impossible to codify the antithesis of one of humanities greatest achievement, even with humor as a saviour. But it might not be an over-simplified judgement that can label a disruption. Elements of the original form still remain but have been put into question, have been re-assembled. Is it only the weak mind that allows the bold to be italic? The commentary is richer by means of what it is critiquing. The technique is there, the story remains powerful but the representation changes. Was mod-ernism a religion to be overthrown or just simply reinterpreted? It could not have solely been the manifestation of Post Modernism that did so, some-thing underneath, dare I say underground that expressed something wholly different. The intention is the same the physicality has changed.

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