STEEL CURTAINS: FABRICATING MEMORIES OF THE POST-PRODUCTION CITY
SUMMER 2020
[Adobe Premiere ; AfterEffects ; DSLR]
Cities are temporal, highly individualized creatures; not only are they constantly changing, but they rely immensely on those who inhabit them to create and recreate their image. These images, which consist of countless experiences and memories, are constructed through the complex interactions of the mind and the built environment. Though powerful, the mind is not always completely reliable; the mental images it creates are often reconstructed by fabricating or substituting bits of information during re-collection. When attempting to piece together one’s image of the city, the mind does not only rely on historically privileged architectural objects, as urbanists such as Aldo Rossi, Kevin Lynch, and others would argue, but instead utilizes a wide variety of mundane and banal elements that, traditionally, have gone overlooked. Steel Curtains reconstructs the image of the city using everyday objects and memory in order to invent new places that are the simultaneous superimposition of fantasy and reality.
