Angels in balance.

I happen to stumble upon an art exhibition yesterday by a Mexican sculptor Jorge Marin. Here's a little info about him: Jorge Marin, was born in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s. Bronze has been his preferred material for the last ten years.His work often depicts horses, centaurs, garudas, children, madonnas, acrobats, along with elements such as spheres, masks, arrows, boats and scales. These concepts are consistent with recurring themes such as reflection and balance.Its more like acrobatic actors wearing masks and wings.

Impossibly balanced sometimes.

This one actually sits on a boat, contemplating on symmetry.

 Fallen angels hiding their faces.

 All of their movements have emphasis on symmetry, interpreted by their arms, exaggerated by their wings.

 Sitting by the window.

This one's over the top. 

All of the figures are on the edge of falling and captured, like an abstract interpretation of mysticism using geometry as a pedestal or dreams on themes of religion and the unknown.They maybe real, or they're just acting, pretending to something else. Great work.

Details.

I was out one Saturday morning hoping to get some keepers for my street photography when  suddenly it rained. I was at first discouraged and maybe call it a day with the rain pouring, bad lighting, empty streets etc., but then i thought, with luck, this could be an opportunity to get something else. So i went looking around and saw these little details around me which i found interesting.

It took little effort to get these shots with a zoom lens, most of the time even with cloudy skies, it is still how light is captured is what makes a photograph interesting.

The light contrasts and the water gushing over the details of this sidewalk canopy really is something. I also liked how the patterns worked on this one. The main roof material is fiberglass so there's still little light coming from the inside.

Other details like rust, cracks and dirt have interesting visual textures too.

Interestingly enough, its still a thing to experience and see how nature works with our built environment. we might not often recognize these little details, but what i can say is, its still worth your time to just stop and look around.

Unfortunately, it rained all day, but i still managed to get some interesting images. Its not entirely true though, that sunny days are the best days to get some interesting photographs, and yes, while it is ideal and it helps a lot, it still depends on how you look at things and how you can adapt your creativity on whatever opportunity it is at hand.

So apparently, street photography has been a thing for me for quite some time now. It somehow makes you look into the built environment and how people interact in it a bit differently. From what I've observed however, being an architect, i find it somehow puzzling that the actuality of designing a space while organizing (if not dictating) programmed activities in it is from what i see different from the finished product. In public spaces for example, naturally, people move in all directions. A sign is just another element in the landscape until we need them. A design could be dynamic and all until you put people on it. It moves things on a different level.

The more I look at it, the aesthetic of the city seems like a bunch of clattered function made in anticipation of our present, and maybe future needs. Public spaces are like inorganic systems that grows based on non-projected functions struggling in organization. Seemingly, the object of design which is organization is in most of the time just an illusion. 

Despite the confusion of the city, people have learned to embrace it, like how we breath air automatically.We somewhat evolved to adapt to this confusion; how going to work everyday, with cramped public transportation systems, crowded commercial areas, our compact apartments etc. make up our daily lives, and yet we always have the ideals of organizing things based on what are our perceived arrangement of 

how we wanted things to be.

Somehow, it leads me into thinking that at some point, maybe instead of resisting uncertainty with the effort of trying to organize things in our physical environment, is that we try to learn to embrace it, and that chances are, the very spaces we have right now (cramped, crowded, compact) are what really provides us the best context for living.