Augusta Metropolis Collage

When I was a child I was a fan of Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis". I rediscovered it when the rock band Queen used parts of it for its video for "Radio Ga Ga." Sometimes I miss the old fashioned, slow world ... I miss utopias, because they all became so real. Anyway the model behind is very handsome Augusta Alexander, a muse one could say. But I wanted to deconstruct him, just like an essay. I wanted to show that even beautiful men, gay or heterosexual, have fragmented feelings, a divided soul, shift from happy to sad. Beauty and a joyful character alone do not mean we are never sad, especially gay people live with this "schizophrenia". Further I am a huge fan of the idea of cubism: during industrialisation cubism deconstructed our world as it seems to fall apart. The industrial age fragmented our society, produced a lot of pollution and made the nature men's servant. Life and work accelerated, the world became more steamy, dirty, hectic, stressfull. A lot of problems we have today are from that period and still unresolved. I think the digital revolution could mean the same, if we do not guide it into the right direction. PLEASE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THE COLOURS COME OUT DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON THE LIGHT! AND THAT IT NEEDS A FRAME TO ASSURE ITS LONGEVITY.