Super-Development

This body of work explores the complex relationship between our culture and the urban and suburban landscape we create. My focus for examining this relationship is the horizontal, for this is how we take over the land and create our spaces, through horizontal sprawl. The manipulation of natural elements within our urban and suburban spaces also plays a key role in this work. We have willfully integrated “natural” elements into our lives through convenience and careful manipulation, giving them more order than they would have naturally. This accessible and aestheticized version of the world we re-shape promotes the illusion that everything is all right.
Where is that American individualism amongst all the identical streets, housing developments and strip malls of suburban America? Why do our rate of consumption and demands for convenience create such strange and homogenous places? And, why is there still beauty in that?



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