Inhabited Sculpture
Cloudscrapers
In the city, we tend to keep our heads down; these photos invite us to look up. It’s not always obvious what’s sky, what’s glass, or which way is up. Steel grids simultaneously order and distort the view, as windows become mirrors, the natural and the manmade jostle for space, and the imposing structures that […]
Pareidolia
Pareidolia: the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. In architecture and design, we’re conditioned to interpret buildings as complete forms. But in doing so, we often overlook the individual components that carry emotion, meaning, or memory. This series shifts attention back to those subtle, often missed […]
Urban Quilt
In the city that built the first skyscraper, the lines that structure the urban landscape run north and south, east and west thus creating ‘the grid’. However, the most striking lines are the ones that run from street to sky. The facades of Chicago’s imposing towers make up this whole other grid, the one staring […]
On the Grid
From the ‘L’
Public transportation, particularly the subway and ‘L’, has always intrigued me. Growing up in a town of about 5,000 people in rural Wisconsin, nowhere near any form of public transportation, there’s just something about the train that felt so completely urban, exotic, and foreign to me. Most of us tend to ride the same lines, […]
The White City
The city can be beautiful. The city can be ghastly. In this series, inspired by Erik Larson’s bestselling historical book, The Devil in the White City, I examine the urban environment as a physical manifestation of human intentions, both the good and the evil. As architects and planners strive to impose order and harmony, mischief […]