Interiorization

[Michiko]

A byzantine display of hallways, stairs, rooms, and walls within 1950s noir films. On the first degree, a visual metaphor for the existential horror of [modernism]. [Modernism] as a labyrinth or maze representing the futility of mans self-created choices; a system in which all choices are ultimately identical; a false freedom; [fatalism]. The concept that human-created systems--modernism (industrialization)--cannot civilize man; and offer him unsustainable (inauthentic) progress. The concept that man cannot save himself. On the second degree, a metaphor for the idea that modernism is more indicative of man than man is of modernism; that mans authentic essence is that of a heart of darkness. Presaged the onset of postmodernism.