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A digitally combined collage of photographs forming an imaginary cityscape based on planned buildings in Toronto. The metallic buildings are formed by separate photographs edited together, making the buildings uneven and disjointed. In the center of the city, faint with distance, is the pointed tip and rounded structure of the Toronto CN Tower. The silvery metal of the buildings blends with a cloudy gray sky above.
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Unimagined Cities 3
Ian Hawthorne
Seeing the class divide prevalent in large global cities during the pandemic prompted me to create this series.The idea of home resonated throughout these works during the pandemic. The portraits of luxury condos and their distorted facades intends to comment on the loneliness of isolation, the alienation present within capitalist economies, and the sheer separation between the haves and have-nots as demonstrated throughout the pandemic. As both me and my parents live in rented apartments, the commodification and exploitation of housing is also deeply personal to me and my practice.
