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A digitally combined collage of photographs forming an imaginary cityscape inspired by the Billionaires’ Row neighborhood in New York City. Reaching into a blue sky with fluffy white clouds on the horizon are several skyscrapers that tower over an urban area below. In the center is a much larger skyscraper formed by several long, narrow buildings patched together. The building tapers off towards the top, forming a spear shape. Next to the tallest skyscraper is an architectural scale model of it depicted with white lines and notations.
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Unimagined Cities 5
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.
