Fascination: Decades

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.

Decades:

I am hopelessly dammed to nostalgic and romanticized notions of the past. I suffer from golden age syndrome, believing that it was better in periods before I was born, that I would have fit in perfectly. Understanding his-tory is both appreciating the achievements that have lead to todays stan-dards in no linear fashion but to also recognize the mistakes made in the ever so challenging attempt to not do the same again. Periods in time are remember through cultural expressions of music, art, fashion, design, but also mentality, language, and demeanor. I am always wonder about how much time has past since yesterday, last week, a month ago, last year, or when I was young and fresh two decades ago.

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