Across the urban landscape we are confronted by myriad people, buildings, things, and scenes. Our surroundings feel familiar, safe, and innocuous, but they are susceptible to changing interpretations, like the changing moods of the anonymous people around us. We can’t always decipher the true mood of those among us, and we are likewise often deceived by our surroundings.
A city, in particular, with its infinite variety of sights, shifting light and shadows, and changing colors, shapes, and patterns, lends itself to multiple narratives relative to the same scene. At any given moment, depending on our frame of mind, our angle of view, the time of day, or perhaps the quality of light, our interpretations change: these seemingly safe, ordinary encounters take on a potentially more uncertain, ambiguous, even unsettling character. We can never be entirely sure that we are accurately interpreting the mood of what we are seeing.
“City Deception” explores the landscape of New York City to witness this darker narrative that emerges.
