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1/11/04: Sketches

This place is so completely fascinating, but so difficult to depict. The enormity of this landscape, its instananeous architecture, its constant self-reproduction - this comes to the senses as a sort of overwhelming depth. Stand on any bridge and you can see into a kaleidoscpe of skyscrapers that stretch across the field of vision for miles, no centers, no neat frames like the cold and logical grids that I'm accustomed to coming from Chicago. There's no single Sears Tower-like structure to provide a little arial face - just a series of antenaes and the gawdy logos of banks adorning the tops of the towers, congradulating the city for existing for 450 years. I constantly fall asleep while mentally peeling away the layers of sounds that drift in through my window - voices, cars, televisions, speakers, buses, firecrackers, radios, helicopters, airplanes - a constant violence, but oddly comforting, like listening to the world turning.

Anyways after four months of living in S?o Paulo I finally some photos to show for it. Below are some of the images that I've been experimenting with lately when given the time. A more coherent project will be in the works soon, hopefully. Click the thumbnail for a (sometimes excessively) larger image.

PS. If anyone noticed, I've taken my photo portfolio off of this site. I'll make a new home on the web for it some time in the kinda distant future. For now, La beta corpo will just be a pretensiously named weblog. Cheers.

posted by jeremy @ 12:47 PM