Mineral City
Figuration in Matter
Mineral City Series – Click Image for Details
Mineral City extends the language of the Mineral series into the visible world. Recognizable cities, buildings, and objects remain within the image, but they are no longer presented as stable representations of place. They emerge through layers of texture, light, erosion, and accumulated surface.
The series brings abstraction and figuration into the same field. A bridge, a temple, a tram, or an urban structure may remain identifiable, yet its boundaries begin to dissolve into the matter surrounding it. The image moves between recognition and abstraction: what first appears as a field of color and texture gradually reveals traces of an actual place.
The cities depicted are therefore not records of their physical appearance. Their forms are retained only to the extent necessary for recognition, while material layers alter their weight, distance, and spatial continuity. Architecture may appear suspended, submerged, fragmented, or partially erased.
Mineral City examines the point at which a recognizable world begins to lose its fixed identity while still remaining visible. It is neither abstraction imposed upon a city nor a city used as a subject for abstraction. The two exist simultaneously, forming a single surface.
Cloud Gate emerges through layered light, texture, and urban haze. Its reflective mass remains recognizable while dissolving into surrounding matter, shifting between monument, surface, memory, and atmospheric presence within Chicago.
Chicago
Kiyomizu Temple appears suspended within pale mineral layers. Architecture remains visible yet unstable, dissolving into light and texture until place, memory, atmosphere, and matter occupy one continuous surface without separation.
Kiyomizu
Venice emerges through ochre, green, and weathered mineral layers. Arches, poles, gondolas, and water remain identifiable while gradually merging, turning the city into a field of accumulated matter and memory.
Venice
Lisbon appears through a pale field of mineral texture, where yellow trams, streets, and facades remain visible but partially dissolve, leaving the city suspended between recognition and abstraction and light.
Lisbon