Night life in the city – Sydney

A unique and contigent chaos

Statement

This artwork aims at showing how life goes faster in cities and how those places are only liminal places forgotten, as soon as crossed.

By using a slow shutter speed, I seek to highlight the speed uniqueness and the singularity of each instant, how they were and will remain inked and blurred only in the photographs.

This series was taken in Sydney. It expresses how this place changed from a quiet peaceful wild landscape and turned into a fast-moving city. Sydney’s streets are just like its pedestrians, they change. After the settlement, at the establishment of the city, the streets were named after people living in them, thus constantly changing with people moving in and out. Today people don’t let their names, nor even their footsteps, just a blur instant that soon fades into the crowd’s noise. An occupied place with fast-paced people, just another kind of jungle, the urban kind.

Through this work, I also wanted to talk about memories and how they fade through time, where small details are forgotten, and where big lines are fading. Streets are the same, people are the same, buildings are the same, just one place among the other, just a city among the other, just a jungle among the other.

I am just like this place. My childish countryside self could sit for hours looking at wide fields, clear skies, and straight horizons, feeling the quiet and restfulness of the place. My new city self can now sit in a cafe for hours, looking at this crowded fast-moving place where noise, activity, guerrilla, and anarchy create an organized chaos. The birds’ symphony turned into cacophony.

This artwork highlights the precious intrinsic value of each instant and how each place we go through is as unique as contingent.