Looking Up

My series, “Looking Up”, is an exploration of the stark, and sometimes harsh, beauty of urban architectural forms above my eye-level. Much of the urban built form is a concrete expression of the finance capital that enables its construction, and while these forms sometimes serve as my spaces of work or rest, they also menacingly loom over me, serving as reminders of the unattainable. I point my lens, usually a telephoto, upwards. Through abstractions, I try to capture the parts of our built environment that I can rarely visit, and can only see through strange and distorted perspectives. High above my eye level, unreachable and unattainable, these architectural objects appear to speak to each other. Sometimes they speak through history, but I’m tracking conversations that are often manifested formally. When a wall is taken down or a puncture is made in a surface, interior spaces may express themselves for a fleeting moment. Buildings cast shadows and reflections on each other, and the environment—trees, the sky—imposes itself on the buildings, making them something more and something less than what the architects imagined them to be. As I walk beneath them, I try to find a quiet spot and observe.