Across the urban landscape we are confronted by myriad buildings, people, scenes. Our surroundings feel familiar, safe, innocuous, but they are susceptible to changing interpretations, like the changing moods of the anonymous people around us. We can’t always decipher the true mood of those among us, and we are likewise often deceived by our surroundings.
A city, in particular, with its infinite variety of sights, shifting light and shadows, and changing colors, shapes and patterns, lends itself to multiple narratives relative to the same scene. Depending on our frame of mind, our angle of view, the time of day or perhaps the quality of light, our interpretations change. What if these seemingly safe, ordinary encounters took on an ambiguous, uncertain, even unsettling character? What if each of these encounters was a clue to a greater mystery or deception weaving its way through the city?
“Urban Deception” explores the landscape of New York City to search for clues that reveal this darker narrative.
