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?