Deciphering Urbanscapes
Mixed-media abstract art series
2021
In 2021, I began structuring my practice around psychogeography, mapping how environments are internalized, distorted, and reconstructed through perception.
These works mark a shift toward a more deliberate visual language, in which abstraction becomes a way to register movement, tension, and spatial experience rather than to represent place.
+ Series Overview in 2021
• Studio: Newburgh, NY
• 33 series: canvas, paper,
and onsite installation
Psychogeography is approached here as a system of orientation
and disorientation. The work does not depict specific locations but traces
how space is experienced and how paths emerge, break, and reorganize.
Each composition functions as an open map, in which direction is unstable, and meaning is formed through navigation across its surface.
“Each work is not a representation of place,
but a condition of orientation.”
Concept & Theme:
Deciphering Urbanscapes
The work approaches the city as a system to be read
rather than represented.
Urban structures, grids, pathways, boundaries,
are translated into layered compositions that reveal how space is perceived, navigated, and mentally reconstructed.
Orientation remains unstable, as if the city's logic is present but only partially accessible.
Each piece functions as an open map, where meaning emerges through the act of deciphering.
Materials & Process
The compositions are built through controlled disruption.
Acrylic establishes depth and chromatic intensity.
Tape introduces precise linear systems that are then interrupted by ink and gesture, destabilizing the surface.
Collage embeds fragments of reality, reinforcing the tension between structure and experience.
Studio & Context
Developed in New York, this body of work marks a shift in my practice toward spatial and psychological mapping.
It lays the foundation for later series in which abstraction functions as a form of navigation.
