City in Flux - Work in Progress

Sometimes it feels that when you turn around a new high-rise has sprung up replacing something that most times you don’t recall what it was… The landscape shifts gently but steadily as the cranes languidly turn right and left… It’s a ballet of cranes up in the sky… The expected growth of cities makes for a carefully orchestrated project as the available land is limited. While the issue has serious repercussions affecting everybody, I approach this subject whimsically. I am free to do what architects and developers can only dream about. I bend engineering protocols and planners’ minds, to construct new urban environments. Photography and imagination allow me to move and reshape buildings. In these times when real estate prices are hitting the roof, through illusion, I multiply land bringing the matter to the fore hoping my imaginary constructions will become a seed that generates alternatives beneficial to the future inhabitants of the city. In the same way, as houses seem to evaporate, construction workers appear and disappear from view –even in their neon uniforms. They are so easy to forget… We live in a City in Flux… My work is based on photography plus digital painting and illusion. As with all my artwork, what you see is not what is but what my imagination sees…