Thursday, October 25, 2007

“Then there is transportationscape: millions of square miles covered with the tinny surfaces of automobiles, the concrete bands of highways, freeways, expressways, parking lots, cloverleaves and their spaghetti-like convulsions, all tastefully trimmed with traffic signs, billboards and dangling wires of power and communication lines.”
--Victor Gruen, 1964

This series of prints entitled “Transportationscapes” is an aerial rendering of our automobile dominated geography. Printed from the transient matrices of polystyrene foam and ink jet prints—using ghost prints and paper lithography—I wanted to express in this series, my incomplete recollections of the urban landscape. The repetition of space given to roads and parking lots, which we experience on a daily basis, is something seldom paid attention to. Through this sewn-together fabric of fragmented transportationscapes, I reconstruct the city matrix I live and move within mnemonically.

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