Series Notes

01 / Three Cities, Three Mechanisms

May 2026

Indigo Static is a sequence of thirty-two photographs taken in three cities: New York, London, and Tokyo.

The work treats the city not as narrative but as condition. The city is a system that organizes movement, visibility, and presence through a structural logic, and each city performs that system operation through a different mechanism. The series traces a single trajectory across the three cities.

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In New York, structure externalizes force. Walls divide the space, passages compress the body, and speed breaks the body down into residual noise. Under the pressure the system exerts from outside, the human remains in the frame. As a sharp form, or as a loosened trace. The structure keeps operating, and resistance sinks into residue. The chapter ends where the human remains as the residue of a trace.

Isolation, New York, 2025

In London, the system manages from above. Directional instruction pre-aligns movement before decision. Light and information descend over the crowd and occupy attention before consciousness forms. Vertical architecture separates access and visibility into layers. What New York enforces, London manages. The human is classified, positioned, and pushed to the lowest place in the hierarchy of access. The chapter ends where the human is excluded from view.

Indoctrination, London, 2025

In Tokyo, the system moves inside the body. Regulatory signals fill the surface of the city densely, yet the same behavior operates where those signals do not exist. People follow direction without instruction, keep their place, and do not cross boundaries. The surface varies from individual to individual, but the uniformity of behavior is complete. The chapter ends where the human becomes a component of the system.

Lane, Tokyo, 2026

The three cities share the same condition. It is the way the urban system regulates and reduces human presence. The same condition operates differently from city to city. Externalization, stratification, internalization. And the three operations do not stay parallel. From the outside to hierarchy, from hierarchy to the interior. They draw a single trajectory in which the place of operation shifts. What structure enforce in New York, what institutions manage in London, the body performs in Tokyo.

Structure remains. Presence recedes.

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Series Notes

02 / The New York Chapter: Seven Stages

June 2026

Seven Stages Where structure externalizes force.

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