Broken Sidewalks

The series is entitled Broken Sidewalks. I used written text (from a poem I wrote) and manipulated images as the basis for creating these digital artworks.

A sidewalk represents the simplest mode of transportation, a pathway accessible to any member of the public. However, sidewalks have undergone physical and symbolic destruction. Urban sprawl privileges the car. Gentrification splits rich from poor. Exclusionary practices divide the public and restricts access. Streets and sidewalks are not valued parts of a cohesive neighbourhood. The masses no longer belong in public, as the embodiment of what it means to be the public.

Alienation is the overriding theme captured in the poetic lines, which are broken up across the six image-text combinations, where the seeming lack of cohesion serves as a metaphor for the lack of our cohesion in the mass, having been reduced to granular chunks of sidewalk cement.