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