Patterns of Urbanization

Description

The Surrealist Collection Present “Patterns of Urbanization”

– a modern, visual metaphor for the interdependence and development of urban areas

This photograph is a visual representation of the concept of these neighborhoods and areas of people ‘stacked’, living life together ‘differently’ in space-time, but ultimately with the same higher goal.

The strength of all beams, rivets, and welds is needed to hold together the structure it supports; just as people, businesses, and life is needed to hold together the structure it supports, society.

Established settlements of migrants birth new neighborhoods; as they grow, the collective neighborhoods and markets become a town. Eventually, the town evolves into a city and more people want to be apart of this society.

The city stops building out and starts to build up. Lives living on top of other lives, creating towers and blocks of a thousand perceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears.

Everyone of them different, but ultimately, they are trying to find the same thing in their own life.

The physical location of this photograph is on the west side of Manhattan, New York,– at the edge of the Hudson River. New York City was a place where I really contemplated what it means to be physically apart of a society, to come together and live in such close proximity, bringing an immensely diverse unity to each neighborhood.

Scores of people and businesses supporting each other, in a plethora of different connected areas and neighborhoods. An effortless blend of life and getting on with what you need to. There is a huge sense of an on going drive for society while stacking their lives on top of each other.