The Meaning of Maximalism
The Meaning of Maximalism
(and why we'll never be minimalists)
Appears in this episode
Hey my Divergent Designers, I’m so excited to announce The Spiral Lab podcast, where my friends Gray, and sometimes Jesse, will be talking with me about art and divergent design. This is a video podcast, and if you click over to The Spiral Lab YouTube channel, you can also view clips and images illustrating a lot of what we’re talking about—and see the amazing editing courtesy of our producer,
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Go gentle on us with this first episode—we’re still learning and figuring it out as we go. But we’re having so much fun! I hope you’ll check in again next week!
Love, Marta (along with Jesse and Gray!)
Maximalism! It’s an interior design style trending across the internet right now, but it’s often misunderstood, and sometimes unfairly maligned. Marta and Gray have completely different styles, but both consider themselves maximalists, for reasons that go beyond aesthetic.
If you’d like to see the art styles and trends we’re talking about, check out the video of this conversation on our Youtube channel.
FURTHER READING:
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture, The New Yorker
Why the West is Afraid of Color, The Juggernaut
Why Everything Is So Ugly by Mina Le
The Perils of Diagnosing Modernists, Bloomberg
Waste Not, Want Not: An Inquiry Into What Women Saved and Assembled, Art Critical
The Meaning of Maximalism
I'm the person who originally shared the two Corb (the bad one and the good one) in the sluggish discord! Also, that's the *generally accepted* way to shorten Le Corbusier's name, which I always do because I can't pronounce French words for the life of me.
Loved watching this — I'm an architect and also currently getting an MA in Disability Studies (despite the fact that I loathe school/academia, but I'm getting so much from this program that I'm sticking it out so far). My likely thesis topic is going to be about how neutral colors and stark spaces are the recommended design for autistic people but it's really so far from the truth for so many autistic people! "The myth of the bland autistic" as you said perfectly.
I have soooo many other thoughts I could add to this comment (I took a lot of notes while watching) but I don't have the energy to curate/articulate right now. Can't wait to see what's next. It's fun to be like "ahhh you're stealing words right out of my mouth!!!!" especially when it's ideas that not a lot (relatively) of people are saying.