Urban environments are difficult to experience in their entirety. At ground level we perceive fragments of a larger whole, but when we see a city at night from a distance (from an airplane or a skyscraper) we have an opportunity to comprehend it more as a complete entity, as a kind of vast luminous organism.
An illuminated city has an ethereal quality that seems to both transcend and physically define a landscape. I'm interested in depicting the visual intensity of the illuminated city, with its network of electric lights resembling a nervous system. I'm interested in the organization of cities, in the cacophonous fluidity of their shape and form. I find it fascinating how this nervous system of electric light is ultimately a manifestation of human habitation – these landscapes are literally electrified by us.
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