C I T Y S P A C E S

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‘City Spaces ‘ is a semi-autobiographical project that explores urban spaces as a context and it’s pressures on a creative existence.

The story begins from a singular premise that everybody is special, and thus, nobody is special. In a transition from an encouraged and sheltered conditioning to develop freely into a more dystopic landscape formulated of cold, rigid structures and shapes, the books intentions was to explore the themes and idiosyncrasies of a fictional city that attempts to disrupt the pattern of creativity. Despite it’s dreamlike composition, the pages increase in complexity and tangibility as the realisation of this concept, or entity of the ‘city’ becomes more concrete and unavoidable.

Heavily based upon the writings of George Perec in ‘Species of Spaces and other Places’, as well as the cinematography and experimentation of the Russian director Dziga Vertov, the book is intended to show,

Special thanks to Elizabeth VazquezLaurie RamsellMaria MidttunLouise ByngLisa Richardsonand Joel Lardner

as a conclusion the dynamic of creativity being a force that eventually overcomes its own apparent implausibility.

I invite anybody to read and interpret freely from my pictures, but this is not a book about the futility of creation. Anything but.

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