What's Left Of Utopia

2014

This project contemplates landscapes shaped by the inhumanity of the structures we build. Amid a tension between grief and hope, figures emerge, fragile, almost spectral, hovering on the edge of disappearance, swallowed by the fog that blankets these urban utopias once celebrated as symbols of progress.

Reduced to disembodied witnesses, they drift within a drama without resolution, their quiet presence a reminder of humanity’s delicate foothold within its own ambitions. Architecture and fog merge, bending perception, leaving the viewer uncertain where the built environment ends and the ephemeral begins.

« We desire our present civilization to advance steadily toward some kind of Utopia. The thought that it may decay and collapse, and that all its spiritual treasure may be lost irrevocably, is repugnant to us. Yet this must be faced as at least a possibility. And this kind of tragedy, the tragedy of a race, must, I think, be admitted in any adequate myth. »

— Olaf Stapledon