A city can be a living, breathing thing, at once safe, vibrant and exhilarating, but also uncertain, dangerous and threatening. Are the moods of a city revealed through the layers of streets, buildings and people we encounter each day? These encounters feel familiar, harmless and innocuous, but are they susceptible to changing interpretations, like the changing moods of the people around us? Are we deceived by our urban surroundings?
The shifting light and shadows, and the changing colors, shapes and patterns betray multiple narratives depending on our frame of mind, our angle of view or perhaps the time of day. Are these urban scenes indeed innocent, ordinary and benign, or are we bearing witness to an ambiguous, unsettling and menacing alternate reality? Each encounter presents as a visual clue to this deception playing on our minds.
“Urban Deception” explores the landscape of New York City in search of these clues to an underlying, mysterious narrative weaving through the fabric of the city.
