Faculty of Design

Environmental Design

Jacob Deaville

To Modernism

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“While we drift in static utility, consciously sightless in all and desire, partisan in the stability of fiction to an imaginary implication of an absent substance, and set forth rejected in our sheltered tragedy: a space of nothingness remains floating as the only real thing, as relic and dogmatic while barred and captured – assumed as the existential conviction of a transhistorical void of haunt and sublimity. To modernism: of detached phenomena, amongst the silence, reality remains indefinite, within stillness, hope and truth remove – equally as constants, as the hidden potential. In the will of hopelessness, nothing stands but a tearing of space, to all artificiality, maintenance, and resuscitation. In a void, permanent nothingness amid the indefinite now falls motionless. Floating in nothingness: to remain is to object, to sustain is to ensure the absent, to release is to yield permanence, passivity, commonality, and absolute non-objectivity. As physical space, definition emanates transgressive of temporality to atemporality, of utility to art. On the edge of nothing, there is only light. A state of rest resides near, and remains rising in a static dissolve to such a state of simplicity, sublimity, dead calm, nothing.”