Structural Integrity and the Grid

October 12, 2023

An exploration into the rigid geometry of urban planning. How the intersection of verticality and repetition creates a rhythm that demands objective distance from the viewer.

The grid is not merely a compositional device but an ideological one — a way of imposing legibility onto spaces that would otherwise resist it. To photograph from above is to insist on the system; to photograph from within is to be subjected by it.