Project: City of Peace

City of Peace When we build a city we want communities to be born within them. People sharing themselves with others. Common interests ignite these communities into places that complete the structures we have built. Communities exist and most certainly are beneficial to bring people together to share their interests and bond with each other. As this visual series progresses, I would like to suggest how important it is to share our communities with others. At first the series depicts different parts of a city landscape and I’d like us to imagine that each depiction within contains people in community. Communities of shared culture; age related, religious, gender, language, racial, political and a wide assortment of interests related to family and social concerns. But, communities remaining separated by common interests sharing themselves with those only who bond together with these interests are soulfully isolated this way. Parts of a whole that don’t see the completeness others can share with them. What happens when we do reach out to others, extending our hands to them, knocking on the door to our own hearts to let them in. Realizing that communities can be born in this way, as a universal group of people, forming complete landscapes of buildings, of homes, of living environments where people know they are accepted. Gone are the walls of prejudice, bigotry and racism. Slowly, but with a consistent pace of purpose, kindness and an open heart emerges creating the City of Peace we all envision.