As culture, we often entrench ourselves in a harsh desert of individualism. We are constantly trying to figure out who we are and where we fit. Individualistic thinking is derived from instincts that helped us to survive and these conscious actions are directly the result of how we identify ourselves. It’s the rugged nature of how we identify the unknown that acts as a metaphor for our own current day society. 

In order for progression to occur, society needs to find a way to work through or with the skeletons of our nature. The abstraction of the cactus, an icon for westward expansion and exploration, is how UNCONFIRMED CACUST responds to this way of viewing our culture via the movement and texture of its form. The metal, rock-like configurations represent not the coldness of individuality, but rather the sturdiness and strength of the collective group. It crawls out of the blackened and forged foundation of ingenuity, not to mock the existing nation, but rather to see its traditions and images through a new light.

It may not matter in the end whether we try to work around our nature or not, we live in such a purposeless, chaotic place that it’s hard to determine what will actually have an effect on how we progress. People claim that now is one of the worst times to be alive, and they say this because of the politics and propaganda we see on a daily basis. It’s always been like this though, there have always been extreme situations that we’ve needed to surmount. However, society can always try to change.