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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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I was walking down the line for what felt like hours

Looking at the sun and occasional rain showers

A glass ceiling allowed light inside

As a break from the red overpowering my eyes

It’s amazing

How the line captured a place so brazen

The pitch-black windows gave me paranoia

So don’t wonder why I used the canopy for cover

At that point I looked down and noticed a high rise

A wall so large that it was the same size

As the line itself, with no way around

So, I ran straight through, but I didn’t hear a sound

Circling low to distance from the upper

Separation from uncertainty to help recover

But what’s healing in a place like this?

As surroundings change again

I stumbled in the abyss

As I broke through - it disappeared like it was never there

Staring back was the underpass and I was scared

Monochrome colourway but the form was there

Pitch black at the end, I had to stay aware

Opening my eyes, I see my home estate

Minimal and monumental how it was portrayed

Walking past the wall where I used to sit and play

A ghost of its former self with nothing I could change

Feeling uneasy I walked to the end

Not knowing what was waiting for me round the bend

But once I turned

I looked back and seen a mile of line

Only to turn back and see the pharmacy this time

Looking at the tower was a scary scene

Dark voids staring at me through the void between

Same as the shadows and everything I’d seen

I had to KICK IT DOWN just to try and intervene

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