Fascination: Minimalism Disrupted

Fascination:

What is a fascination? For me understanding the fundamentals, dare I say the principles, in which a critical view on design requires. What is it that I appreciate in the natural and composed environments that surround me? What catches my eye at first sensational glance and what keeps me in-terested with sunstained story behind it. These elements make up my so called appropriated identity, not of my own creation but of an organized curation. The purely sublime manifestation of witty invention mixed with the cleverly altered classics. At first I am only drawn by the substanti-ated and intellectualized but the emotional and romantic come through in moments of self professed weakness. Its a melange but continuity exists with consideration for aesthetics, formal integrity, proportion, material, context, and message.

Minimalism Disrupted:

To have self-awareness it is crucial to know when to have humor about ones own actions, believes, and accomplishments as much as failures. Minimalism is the ultimate human achievement in design and aesthetics but without understanding how to laugh at or with such a claim, it would no long be tenable to convince or have a fresh perspective. For me the strongest examples of such wit-ty mockery can only be understood as flattery, especially when achieved through nuance. play against an object’s clear story but ask the reader/viewer to take a step back, slow down and look deeper before making an inference at moments glance.

The following pages reveal images from my collection that fit the theme...