The rise of the Experimental lifestyle wave has begun with a group of local Brisbane artists and close friends that at some point of year 2023 resided in Paddington. Jonathan Trent, Michael Polinsky and his wife Sandra have all met in 2017 at the Victorian College of Arts where they were studying Fine Arts. From the first, after Friday night class, pub session they were able to find their common interest – desire to create a perfect society based on the person-oriented ideologies. They have all agreed on the fact that too many people at that time were more concerned about money, the way they look and things they can or can’t afford than friendships, family and world around them in general. Jonathan and Sandra have both been well educated in political history and had an understanding of previous mistakes mankind has made. Therefore they shared no interest in propaganda or questionable utopian regimes. Michael however was a very opiniated man and never hesitated to share his point of view with anyone when opportunity presented itself. He possessed a great charisma, people skills and was able to turn any gathering into a party. In 2019 they formed an Artistic circle of friends and followers as their experimental neo-avantguardist artistic activity was attracting more and more attention. In 2020 Sandra, Michael and Jonathan opened a small gallery in the heart of Paddington on the spot where an old monument of consumerism and mass production (Paddington Central Shopping centre) used to stand. Their art installations, video projections, photographs, films and collages all carried an explicit however peaceful message as well as a “suggestion” to how people could fight alienation, body image problems and aggressive form of business ambitions. They were not scared to use the word “Beauty” and “Aesthetics” in their artworks, they wanted to build a better future through fabricating an environment that would make people observe, experience and want to experience rather than shop and consume.
It is not known what exactly caused such popularity amongst the Artists but the proposal slinked in quickly and the wave of Experimental Experience lifestyle broke out of Paddington and wiped out the consumerism sensibilities around the whole Queensland State by 2023.
With more and more Visual and Performance artists moving into the area and opening their shops the suburb started to overflow with non-consumer Eco art and fashion and soon poured out onto the streets and became to grow around people like an independent organism or combination of art, performance, simple elements of lifestyle and social interactions.
Paddington quickly became a world destination for tourism. The eccentric side of the region attracted more and more people from around the world.
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