CITIES AT NIGHT
In ‘Cities at Night’, my focus is aerial views of the dazzling forms of cities at night. I invite the viewer to consider the tremendous amount of light we emit and the implications of light pollution. At the same time, I explore the beautiful, varied organic structure of the world’s biggest cities and, by extension, how we organize ourselves as urban beings. The paintings invite comparisons to other organic structures, both vast, such as star systems, and small, such as microscopic organisms. The paintings celebrate the world’s cities and reveal their paradoxical beauty while asking how we can make them more vibrant, sustainable, smartly lit – and ultimately better places to live.
All works were painted with palette knife and acrylic. Reference material included images from the International Space Station and Google maps.
