NYC

NYC combines two incompatible views of the city within a single image. Above, Times Square is seen at eye level, its perspective drawing upward into the urban canyon. Below, a bird’s-eye view follows another vanishing point, pulling space in the opposite direction. Where the two systems meet, perspective swells into a barrel-like zone rather than resolving into one continuous space.

Across both views, an atmospheric layer follows its own logic. Brighter below and darker above, it ignores the separate perspectives and passes continuously across them, binding the image together.

Viewing distance changes which layer dominates. From afar, architectural detail recedes and the atmospheric field remains, making the work appear almost entirely abstract. As the viewer approaches, buildings, streets, signs, and spatial structures emerge from beneath it. NYC therefore shifts not only between two viewpoints, but between abstraction and figuration, depending on where the viewer stands in relation to the surface.