Paper short abstract:

This visual project is a path to the life of contemporary urban materialities and to the pace of urban transformation. The pictures are encounters along the path that present the capitalist city symbols as equally important with the mundane objects by the power of perspective.

Paper long abstract:

The visual project in this presentation is a path to the life of contemporary urban materialities and to the pace of urban transformation. The photos touch delicately the urban material renewal that is molding London landscapes and skyline. The pictures present lightly the heavy construction work by the power of perspective and distances between the material objects inside the frames. The urban renewal appears as an ongoing project of construction and demolition: coloured glass balconies and facades replace bricks and concrete. The eyes of the city monitor London's strategic views. Yet, there are many perspectives and alternative ways of seeing the cityscapes. The presentation style of this photo project is based on an idea that the ephemerality of the city cannot be captured in a representation. The photo project can be read as outsider cowboy trying to present the affective atmosphere of the contemporary city. The city cowboy wanders back and forth on a bridge crossing the orange line at Shoreditch High Street Station. The pendulum is a symbolical path in between the London of low rise and city of skyscrapers. Momentarily the city cowboy leaves the bridge to encounter the city materialities: the concrete and glass shaping the sky, and the cranes as an enduring part of the cityscapes. In the pictures the symbols of the capitalist city and the legacy of the Olympics become equally important with the mundane objects of the city.