"Am I Arrived?" 2024

What Constitues A Place?

With this work, I attempt to respond to that question. Through these four digital collages, I explore the ubiquity of everyday spaces — moving from a macro, aerial perspective to the street level in the final piece. Drawing from maps and street-view images of various European places where I grew up, I sought to imagine and visualize what it would mean to merge the characteristics of all those environments into a single, composite landscape.

In the merging of these fragments, the work reflects on a form of urban mimetism — the tendency of contemporary spaces to imitate one another until their identities blur. As the places we inhabit grow increasingly similar, they begin to fold into one another, creating a continuous urban fabric where the boundaries between here and elsewhere dissolve, and our sense of place drifts within a landscape of repetition.