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I looked at furniture designs and room designs made by Luis Rey, back when he was a student at Parson’s in the 1960s. I was really intrigued at how he displayed what was clearly the same room sometimes, but just through different perspectives. For example, there was a sculpture that was present in almost all of Rey’s pieces, but the way the sculpture was depicted kept changing from frame to frame. The depictions also look very modern, but it’s clear that these designs were also very popular in the 60s. The consistent monotony really left a unique, distinct impression in my mind. This has influenced me to write a critical paper on considering what is considered modern, and what is not, yet I do not have a specific topic I am set on yet. Rey’s pieces made me consider different ways of looking at the exact same thing, and also defining modernism.