Tatlin's Tower by Vladimir Tatlin was the pivotal artwork of the Constructivist movement in the Soviet Union in 1919. The uplifting skeletal structure was to represent the Russian Revolution, its’ positive modernity and the exciting future that lay ahead. Exactly 100 years later, we watch as the stability of our entire world is slowly destroyed by the very country that once sought to uplift it, Russia. Utilizing the ideas behind the Constructivist movement, Homage to Democracy explores a visualization of the demise of democracy and seeks to remind ourselves of what can be so easily lost.
