Urban tableau
Power operates
Visual discourse
The image invites us to consider how power operates through the visual, how it shapes our perception of the world, and how it inscribes itself upon our bodies and our minds.
“The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war.” – Michel Foucault
Rhythmic dance
Specific intersection
Harmonious interplay
The very act of walking, an act so ordinary as to be almost unnoticed, becomes a source of profound contemplation when undertaken with an aesthetic sensibility.
“The aesthetic judgment is not a judgment of taste, but a judgment of intuition.” – Benedetto Crocea
Support structure
Primarily resists
Lateral forces
Hard-edge linear forms are augmented by light.
“I never met a straight line I did not like.” – Carmen Herrera
Nexus of past
Present and future
Possibilities
A complex of experiences require an active engagement with what is: the interconnectedness between all physical things that determine their particular nature.
“The first analysis of an actual entity, into its most concrete elements, discloses it to be a concrescence of prehensions, which have originated in its process of becoming.” – Alfred North Whitehead
City matrix
Static substances
Dynamic processes
Here we approach organized complexity as an event in the process of becoming.
“The final realites of the world are not hard, irreducible, stubborn facts, but are events, happenings, occurrences. The entire character of actuality is to be described by these.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Sign reflection
Interior shop
Exterior world
The static shop sign and the dynamic reflection create a dialectical sway.
“The street is a stage for the everyday.” – Walter Benjamin
Inclination longitude
Imaginary quantities
Coordinate axis
Working on art museum display electromagnetic radiation interactions
“We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.” – Janelle Monae
Stewart’s
Pawn shop
TV’s laptops
Standing on the outskirts of the scene, geometrical organization emerges from a place of deep thought and great meaning.
“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?” – Steven Wright
Multifaceted mashup
Spatio-temporal
Dataset
Social and urban emergent relationships develop across the urban spectacle.
“Exploratory visual analysis that proceeds in an iterative fashion can be a highly effective means of preliminary investigation.” – Jo Wood
Captivating interplay
Facade exploration
Lived experience
The sharp angles and clean lines evoke a sense of order and precision.
“Consciousness is not a mere empty stage on which things appear… it is itself a living process.” – Edmund Husserl