From a humanistic viewpoint I am not a fan of the industrial revolution. Too many people sacrificed their lives (through a kind of living death), in order to provide our present reality. Tied to a production line or cast down a dark coal mine, is difficult to equate with being human.

With this viewpoint in mind, I am a little unsure what to make of the message behind Artzybasheff’s Machinalia. His personifications of machines could also be seen as ‘machinifications’ of people. Man as machine or machine as man? I’m unsure; it’s a little difficult to distinguish.

See the stunning Machinalia here

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