Multi-media Construction
40" Wide x 30" Deep x 60" High
Wood, Plaster, Acrylic, Glass, Cloth, Various found and repurposed objects, Motors, HO scale streetlights, Leds, Embedded audio, Spy cam and monitor, Time controlled humidifier.
Polytopia Resorts unfolds as an extravagant destination whose promises of comfort, leisure, and scenic perfection are sustained by an exposed infrastructure. Stacked platforms, glass enclosures, and improvised landscapes mingle with miniature streetlights, surveillance devices, moving mechanisms, and timed vapor. Its architectural attractions are inseparable from the equipment that keeps the spectacle going.
Utopia and dystopia share an impulse to fashion a world in our image: one projects the fulfillment of our desires, while the other exposes the less appealing conditions concealed beneath that promise. Here, these ostensibly opposing visions inhabit the same terrain. Yet topos is more than a neutral setting for such ideals. Place itself shapes habits, identities, and expectations, animating the encounter between subject and object.
Drama in a diorama: At Vista Banks, stacked living plateaus offer kaleidoscopic views, while the adjoining Nulture Biome becomes a dubious composting engine of nature and culture. The giant smokestack exhales vapor like a dormant volcano threatening to reawaken, presiding over a landscape of engineered comforts and uncertain ecological arrangements.
From the Crystal Mathedral to the Foetal Wishing Well, the attractions promise various forms of cultivation and renewal. At the foot of the smokestack, gleaming streetlights keep vigil, enduring beacons of Enlightenment ideals illuminating the palimpsest of their fading roadmaps.
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