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W A L L S are N O T W A L L S
. . . an experiential reportage, a ‘derive’ with the digital camera as a sensor that captures, dissects, and rebuilds the imagery of the urban environment in a way that is analogous to the dislocations and disruptions of the personal experience.
As social commentary, Walls are Not Walls responds to the overwhelming recurrence of urban rebuilding in our era by posing a philosophical-political question: how is our sensibility affected when the energy, intensity and the mutability of ‘outside’ slips inevitably through our senses to ‘inside’ our self-awareness? Can photo/graphic imagery positively express or reflect what may be felt as a symptom of internal disruption?