Georges

Braque

Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist,
draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
Braque was a cubist and Faucist. Cubism is when something is painted from
multiple perspectives at once and are mashed together in the same image. Braque
worked closely together with Pablo Picasso between the years of 1908 and 1912
to create Cubism.

Braque also developed a sense of style with Fauism. Fauvism is when brilliant
vivid colours are used to represent emotional response.

Travelogue
As you cross the threshold and crawl underneath the tarantula legs of dead tree roots your eyes focus on the
mesmerising vastness of Distortia, city of movement. Distortia is a city that is always manifesting into something
completley different. Youre not quite sure what it is your looking at as your eyes start to adjust by looking for
familiarity, the shapes of the city shift drastically and conform to something radically different.
A rubiks cube of shapes, points, roofs, arches, textures, and colours contort chronologically together synchronising in
complex new buildings to form a new city, you look on in utter astonishment, looking from your peripheral vision shows
a different city. The buildings are coloured different from one another with deep reds, seafoam green, blue velvet and
bright yellows being prevalent, the buildings have textures that resemble plastic, polka dots and galvanised steel, they
are jagged, distorted and dangerous and one wonders how the citizens of Distortia are able to withstand such constant
change.
The buildings are not on one level and instead are stacked on top of each other as you wonder how do you get to the
above buildings the city shifts and reveals multiple staircases that meander and weave around the citys core. The
locals say that the rich live higher up in the clouds of Distortia and look down on the ground level dwellers as the poor
live on street level. As you make your way forward looking in a different more close up perspective the monstrous
buildings start to make more sense.. until they start to manifest into something different again which leaves you baffled
and unable to understand the workings of city
Distortia doesnt follow the laws of physics and gravity as the roads climb and wrap around the buildings like a vine
trying to find sunlight as they seem to burrow in between shapes of buldings as if to make a tunnel through them
however you are not certain as the many perspectives of buildings cloud your vision and you cannot tell when one road
starts and another ends.

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The vegetation of Distortia is in vast contrast to the jagged geometrical shapes of the buildings as they are soft and oozy
and seem to dissolve and dribble into liquid colours so vivid they look like petrol bleaching into water. You wonder if you

are
hallucinating as the colours of the trees flow and gurgle into one another as you feel yourself falling into a hazy
meditative state as you gaze at the colours rippling into one another. The trees and mountains of Distortia follow as far as
the eye can see to the horizon line behind the cityscape and you wonder if its all just a mirage and if your eyes are playing
tricks on you as the earth towards the horizon seems to pulsate with colour. As you gaze into the distance past the trees
and cityscape you notice that the landscape seems to concave in on itself, the multitude of colours from the ground bend
and bleed into a labyrinth of blackness and you wonder what is down there? Why is it there? in a city so full of vibrant
colours and more importantly if there is a way out. The locals say that it happens often that the residents begin to
question everything and many forget what is real and what isnt real as living in a city of constant motion drives many
over the edge and when it does happen they escape their unhinged mental state by diving into the plume of black where
the Kaleidoscopic colours stop and the suffocating darkness smothers.
The people of Distortia are as strange and unfamiliar as the city itself. They float around going from one destination to
the next and their faces seem to match the mash up of perspectives of the city, You look at a civilian from the corner of
your eye and notice a face set in profile but when you look straight on you see the familiar face is a twisted uncanny
fusion of perspectives of eyes noses and mouths, they have an abundance of lines and shapes which makes up their
confusing faces. The citizens of Distortia do however have the pleasure of not conforming to the same route of travel
every day as the city gives them new ways to travel which makes it feel like a new adventure each time however many
seem to relinquish this way of life and loath those that can live with routine. The lower part of Distortia has a massive
array of shops that offer many amenities to the civilians with many being bric a brac shops that offer many hand made
trinkets such as crystals, lamps, sculptures and pottery. As the sun sets in you notice the increments of the city changing
its form begins to slow to a halt as the people begin to return to their homes and wind down for the day. The city slots into
place and the hierarchys buildings are revealed. The Hierarchys buildings are mammoth in size and look like two giant
pincers, which apparently dont move like the accompanying buildings for the civilians. The hierarchys building is never
on show during the day as the movement of the city around it disguises it from the viewer like a bomb shelter.

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Fluorescent glow in the dark kites light up the night sky of and feel like they are trying to make a up a city themselves
as they are in a multitude of shapes and colours that match the structure of the cityscape during the daytime as they
glide through the night sky.
Distortia is a psychedelic trip for the traveller as the many colours and shapes are surreal and otherworldly and
many would assume that it is a safe haven of elation but the many pedestrians of Distortia seem like they are going
through the paces and are lost in a haze of the colours that illuminate them. Many believe that the Hierarchys
buildings hold the secret to the Citys constant movements and that many have lost their lives trying to figure it out

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