My small drawings in this exhibition envision Brooklyn as an imagined futuristic utopian society, one in which idyllic architectural equilibrium has been reached, and a sustainable urban eco friendly environment has been created.

Historically, the notion of utopia society has been met with great cynicism from the post-modern era. Idiosyncratic humanist thinkers such as Buckminster Fuller, known for his futuristic geodesic dome and an interest in sustainability and human survival under the existing socio-economic system, are currently seen with irony and as fantasy. One might ask the question today, what can we gain from re-envisioning the future in such democratically radical ways such as Fuller’s? What would a return to Fuller’s vision of an ideal future society look like today?

I will pose this very question in my drawings, and picture the borough with the realization of previous Utopian visions such as Fuller’s Dome over Manhattan. My drawings bridge the gaps between earlier modernist ideals and contemporary concerns of global, environmental, and social issues.

- Robert Minervini