My senior thesis explores the visual language of De Stijl, Constructivism, and Neo-Plasticism. Reframing contemporary society through the lens of those movements. 3 illustrated framed prints of Industrial, Digital, and Residential abstracted architectural draftings.
Thesis Statement:
The digital and the physical have blurred. Trust and truth collapse, irony is the norm, and sincerity is an anomaly. Utopian visions and aspirations of the Neo-Plasticism and Constructivist movements have been bastardized. Modernism has failed and is used as a mask for exploitation, productivity, individualism, surveillance, and consumption. The machine has not been used to achieve utopia; it has been abused for capital. Without material benefits to the people, these aesthetics feel like an empty apartment, a broken promise. Perhaps this is just the natural evolution and inevitable conclusion of modernism. Maybe in the search for utopia we ignored the ways the tools and innovations could be used to achieve dystopia.
Would Van Doesburg do it again if he could see a new Taco Bell?