machine aesthetic

Cut-paper collage 9" x 12"

Background machine has something to do with particle physics, probably a super-collider. Yellow pieces are snipped from a photo of the backstage machinery for a huge stadium. Blue rectangles are from photos of the wreck of the Titanic. Of the four foreground machines, the only one I know anything about is some sort of rocket in the upper right.

The Machine Aesthetic is a subset of Modernism, important in the 1920s and '30s in its influence on design and architecture. Basically it means that machines can be beautiful. This article discusses the Machine Aesthetic at some length.