DIG INTO SYSTEM
You’re part of the system. Even now, trying to understand this text, you’re spinning in its algorithms. The system offers you the illusion of a choice: to dig deeper, to find an answer, to get harder, to become more conscious. But the more you look, the more confused you get. Each new layer is not a breakthrough, but just another spiral, another loop in the node.
The image of a smoker in a road sign, which is a metaphor for permanent self-exploration in the search for an answer to the question of how to go beyond the system. I’m researching traffic signs that directly create the appearance of order. But their language is the language of a system that merely mimics care. In fact, they do not lead to a goal — they force us to move by the rules, even if the road ends with a dead end. The system doesn’t solve the problem — it means it, leaving you in the endless search cycle for the «right» direction.
The use of completed reality filters becomes the perfect medium for talking about control — it not just puts a digital layer, but speaks the language of the system itself: adaptive, invisible, substitute for reality. Road signs are a pure symbol of an illusional choice where the system does not prohibit, but rather directs, leaving a ghost sense of freedom. The AR labyrinth of signs and interfaces is a mirror in which the system is infinitely self-reflecting, leaving only one way out — knowing there’s no way out.
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Trying to get through the maze is a complication of the task when cones are not lined up in the plane by which you move, but take the shape of the wall, poking even more on the user.
The spirit of the project is a melancholic, lyrical hero, aware of the closedness of the system, the image of a sphere of prohibited signs of people, as if it was pressuring the user and recalling that it is in the loop of the system. The sphere spins around the user without stopping, sometimes completely absorbing it.
The user is asked to break the rule and look at the system ' s response. She doesn’t punish the violation, but she integrates the violation into the system. Real control is not a ban, but an illusion of defeating it.
We’ve been walking manuals for a long time. This filter is just a mirror that shows the process in real time. Your body is no longer yours; it’s an archive of systems teams.
The paradox of today’s search for meaning in the digital world: the more knowledge tools, the further away we are from the truth. We don’t destroy the system; we get complicated with it until it becomes the only reality.
