Indoctrination (Blue Star) features the logo of Reddit, centered on a blue field and overlaid on a star. The composition is playful, flattened, and deceptively democratic. Reddit presents itself as a forum—but functions as a hive. Its logic is collective, recursive, and emotionally charged.

This canvas marks a late phase in the evolution of Romanticism: the shift from longing for transcendence to longing for consensus. From nationalism to propaganda, from advertising to social media, each stage refines the machinery of belief. Reddit completes a loop of communal performance—where identity is shaped not by self-expression, but by group affirmation.

The blue star anchors the work within the series’ chromatic structure. It is not symbolic—it is procedural. A visual echo of the platform’s logic: swarm-based, gamified, and endlessly self-reinforcing.

Reddit does not indoctrinate through authority. It does so through repetition, tribalism, and the emotional gravity of belonging.