Alienation means being alone in a crowd where the lines between them and us have become etched with a finely honed sharpness. Life in the city is circumscribed by edges and boundaries, both visible and invisible— traversing margins and centers, storefronts and skyscrapers, underpasses and parking lots, streets, neighborhoods, homes and the homeless. Art becomes a process through which documentary encounters the phantasmagoria, each intervening in the experience of the other, so that the lyric might be (re)discovered in actuality and what once was regarded as urban blight takes the form of new urban pastoral.
Art of Revolution/Art of Rescue, Jeannene M. Przyblyski
I’m interested in photographing the growth within urban landscape today. I’m trying to understand why and how city planners are able to make the choices they make. Observing the way in which the construction never seems to end, I find myself trying to examine these spaces from many different perspectives. While making these long exposures at night I consider: "what has been moved and what will take its place? who will use this space and what will it be used for? how does all this growth effect our future? when will life begin to slow down?." I continually look up at the sky, which always provides a space for me to consider how this growth will effect what is around us, things that we can’t see and things we choose not to see. The tension between culture and nature is a condition which fascinates and haunts me. I have such contradictory concepts about the beauty within all the destruction and growth, and the fear of not knowing or understanding the choices being made. These photographs are my response to these concepts.