The Ingenuous City

A city’s social and physical landscape results from an ongoing relationship between a dominant, overt culture and a plurality of subterranean currents. Among these, there’s a specific subculture which doesn’t correspond to any specific demographics or population but emerges wherever a human action, no matter if intentional or serendipitous, creates a discontinuity in the surface of the mainstream culture. These visual traces of discontinuity have an ephemeral quality which can hardly be described, but using the term ingenuousness can be a good approximation.