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Allegory [Architectural Thesis]

Exploring the controlling image of film and the influence a negative one has on modernist estates. Utilising Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to breakdown the controlling image and deliver a poetic thesis of how we see people within abstracts of the modernist block.

Exploring the controlling image of film and the influence a negative one has on modernist estates. Utilising Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to breakdown the controlling image and deliver a poetic thesis of how we see people within abstracts of the modernist block.

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As my surroundings caved in

I shut my eyes to open to a strange thing

It was the Art House but it was exposed

Structures visible no longer enclosed

Seconds later I seen it reignite

Then all the structures around me started to set alight

Looking at the line for a way to leave

A ruin of a building it was stripped raw

But there was no clear exit that I could have seen

Had me thinking why did I go on this trip for?

Broken windows and collapsed walls

The columns in the middle couldn’t stand tall

Seeing my reality - I was stuck inside

I embraced the flames around me and I closed my eyes

But right before I fell, like the blocks that I’d seen

Leaning on the line trying to get support

My eyes opened wide, like waking from a dream

Connection points were looking like a last resort

Looking like they didn’t want to stand no more

Broken beams in the rafters spanned above them all

I snapped back and I was sitting down

In the Art House studios with people round

Sitting contemplating all the things I’d seen

I walked in the centre of the exposed space

Then I looked to see Central Hill up on the screen

Seeing columns transform and leave a burnt trace

Almost like they’d been lit with a large flame

That engulfed the building when it was untamed

Watching people walk away and patronise

Falling victim to the imagery before their eyes

I had to stop and tell them they were seeing lies

As I looked into the centre I couldn’t believe

Had me questioning my eyes and what I perceived

There was a bonfire as real as can be

I told them

OPEN UP YOUR EYES AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED

And if it did this then was it trying to achieve?

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