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Dark Matter: Cities - New York

By  Julie Mecoli 2017

Dark Matter: Cities - New York (detail)

95/25 bitumen, evaporating basin, bell jar, wooden base, plinth

These New York skylines express duality and contrast: substance/reflection, above/below, solidity/impermanence, man-made/nature, form/formlessness, opacity/transparency, darkness/light… Place experienced through the frame of the individual transforms and is transformed.

95/25 bitumen, evaporating basin, bell jar, wooden base, plinth

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