Neodecadence

Since the Pre-Raphaelites, the decadence of the symbolists had reflected in keeping distance from the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, a material imperative of those times and quite unreasonable ways of consuming natural and abusing human resources (and as a matter of fact, these ways haven’t changed a great deal ever since).

A symbol, by it’s very nature, refers to an absent reality. In matmatics it signifies an unknown quantity, in religion, poetry or art it lends substance to an unknown quality – a value that remains out of reach.