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A digitally combined collage of photographs forming an imaginary cityscape based on planned buildings in Toronto. The buildings are formed by separate photographs edited together, making the buildings uneven and disjointed. They are clustered so tightly together it is nearly impossible to make out individual buildings. In the center of the city, a single building towers nearly twice as high as the rest, reaching towards the top of the bright white sky.
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Unimagined Cities 4
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.
