I’m fixated on how much I love the city. This fascination encompasses the physical presence (skyscrapers, vinyl siding, cracked sidewalks, gigantic plasma screens, whatever) and the psychological fluctuations. The outcome is an optimistic amalgam of misguided purpose, uncharted uses, hybrid growth and practical reconfigurations. I survey the urban terrain – how it shapes our behavior and comprehension – with the romanticism of an ecologist. In this age when the outward symbols and styles of construction have shed their fixed meanings yet increasingly design purports to be transparent, navigating a city requires a new skill set. The reality of multifunction structures (government offices, hotel, mall, gigantic TV all in one?) makes the distance between ‘being somewhere’ and ‘getting there’ much greater; even if all you have to do is walk to the kitchen in order to get to your office. In order to represent this oscillation between being and transport, I use, respectively, spatial representations of urban landscapes and abstract pattering. The three dimensional images stand in for the varied functions that a city ‘houses’ while the flat ones represent the gaps in between. The combination, like the city itself, is an unnatural one. My latest body of work focuses on Times Square. Despite its new marketing as the sanitized ‘entertainment hub’ of the city, Times Square is the location of a great diversity of activity (including my favorite the NASDAQ building) and is clad in the style of the every increasing advertising assault on the ‘skin’ of the city. Borrowing this aesthetic (billboard size images, light boxes) I project a glamorized image of the city on traditionally unused or underused parts of exhibition spaces (the latest being the windows). The images are created in a variety of ways from large scale drawings (hand made or computer generated) to appliqués of self adhesive vinyl. I try to utilize this visual bounty to lead into a considered viewing of the city.