Absurd Machine I (after Piranesi), Primary Structures

Screen Print, 2007, 60" x 44"

The "Absurd Machines" body of work is based in Le Corbusier's modernist architectural ideals of cities functioning as machines for living. The term "Absurd Machine" was coined by Giovanni Battista Piranesi as a prophesying of the future of the bourgeois city. This idea was later understood in relation to the metropolises organized in the 19th century as primary structures of the capitalist economy.

Absurd Machine's I and II address the existing objectives of the functional nature of architecture, while still equally emphasizing the iconography, or symbolic role, of these modern structures in relation to the identity of a city.