Don’t Fade Away

Large cities provide the illusion that we are never alone and always close to another human being. Paradoxically the lighting, architecture and spatial design in a city can also create imagery which suggests distance and isolation.

Passageway joining Hanbury Streeet to Old Montague Street. London 2000

A feeling of isolation can also become a feature of the underground.

Bank Station 2009

Budapest museum of modern art, 2006

As for the person in the boat below it is likely the experience is one characterised by peace and perhaps a feeling of harmony with nature; the antithesis of alienation in the city.

Flooded plain outside Dhaka. Bangladesh 1991