motionscapes: 05 Buildings by the Highway

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

05 Buildings by the Highway

Pine Point Arena,

carrying the same modernist optimism

as the motorway below it.

Highway 401, near Islington Ave. Toronto

Cathedral of the Transfiguration

from Highway 404 by Woodbine Ave, Markham

1 comment:

AnonymousMay 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Love the cathedral photo. Very nice. I think you should take lots of these.
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About Motionscapes

Jiangnan is on the brink of revolution: a network of bullet train lines will re-territorilize this region of China, including Shanghai, drawing its 80 million inhabitants within a single hour’s commute of one another. From the train, the boundaries between Jiangnan’s ancient cities, villages, and countryside appear to dissolve into a momentary smear of colour. At the very moment the earth has shrunk by the bullet train, Jiangnan’s new mega-city status will erode a sense of community rooted in long stable demarcations of place. The humanity that endures will likely be atomized, lost in a vast, blurred, and indecipherable landscape that has sacrificed community for the high-speed design of a relentless modernity.

Motionscapes, the blog, documents a project in progress. It collects experiences of contemporary Jiangnan. The project also aspires to describe and imagine moments of cultural resilience and rootedness in a landscape otherwise derationed, homogonized, and sacrificed by a manically technologic modernity.