Urban Memory Series— Click Image for Details
Urban Memory presents cities as internal landscapes formed through memory, light, and perceptual residue. Each work is constructed entirely from photographs taken in the specific city it depicts. These visual fragments are deformed through layering, veiling, and spatial displacement, then reconstructed into perceptual fields that evoke the atmosphere of subconscious memory.
Architecture dissolves into sensation. Landmarks lose their outlines and reappear as traces of presence. The original material remains embedded, yet the image functions through feeling rather than depiction.
Each work in the series functions as a question. The viewer is asked to compare what they remember of a city with what remains in the image before them. That gap becomes the space of communication.
In contemporary practice, innovation may arise through concept, visual rupture, or material experimentation. The innovation in this series lies in its process. Each image begins with documentary photographs of a real city. Through a consistent method of deformation and reconstruction, the image shifts from external record to internal perception. The transformation is disciplined and traceable. Every element originates from the site itself and passes through a controlled system of reduction and reassembly.
While many painters deform and reconstruct reality internally through intuition, this series externalizes the process. The transformation is recorded, visible, and reproducible. The result is not a subjective impression formed in the mind alone. It is a perceptual structure shaped by method and anchored in real material.
The city re-emerges as a field of emotional residue shaped by time, atmosphere, and disappearance. What appears is not a location, but the imprint of a place that continues to live inside the viewer.
Tokyo
Tokyo captures the city as a layered field of memory and light. Bridges, towers, and high-rises emerge through tonal compression, suspended between artificial glow and the first light of day. The image holds no fixed view—Tokyo is sensed through density and rhythm, shaped by the quiet motion of dawn.
Venice
In this vision of Venice, light overtakes form. A gondola moves through a narrow canal, and another crosses the Grand Canal—each drawn toward a field of radiance. The city becomes memory in motion, its beauty dissolving into warmth and reverence. What remains is presence suspended in light.
Napoli
As Napoli dissolves into light, the city no longer reflects itself but transmits a memory—soft, spiritual, and unresolved. This is the moment a city becomes presence.
Puglia
Puglia captures a Southern Italian town as it dissolves into light and memory. The conical rooftops surface through a veil of mist and particulate glow, holding a balance between architectural trace and perceptual dissolve.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam dissolves the canal-side cityscape into a layered blue field, where architecture, vegetation, and water textures merge into a single atmospheric surface. A magenta-cyan transition at the center anchors the composition while the brighter right edge guides the eye across the scene.
Cappadocia
In Cappadocia, hot air balloons drift through layered earth and cosmic dust. The landscape dissolves into dream, where ascent becomes memory and light becomes breath.
Paris
Paris drifts like a lucid memory—structures dissolve into light, and the city becomes a dream seen through water.
Rome
This image reconstructs the Colosseum as it exists in shared memory—fragmented, faded, and layered with time. Rather than depict a fixed moment, it evokes how history persists through erosion. Shapes remain, but details blur. The work suggests a memory passed down through generations, where presence survives through form, not precision..
Vienna
A city of empire and ornament dissolves into spectral rhythm.
Layered façades, drifting signage, and a distant dome echo through mist—where history is no longer seen, only felt as vibration.
Coldova
Córdoba captures the tangled memory of a sunlit street—where Mediterranean warmth dissolves into a cool wash of time. Overlaid textures and visual noise mark the tension between presence and disappearance, preserving the city as a layered afterimage rather than a fixed location.