The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City
“Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.” -Aristotle Michel de Certeau, in “The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City,” discusses the idea of observing the constant actions of New York City to then contextualize those visuals into art based on relationships between lines and colors. Every action observed is symbolized by a specific mark or character and without a key, it’s impossible to explore the depth of each piece. For my project, I observed mansions in Old Westbury and based my colors on different specs of the houses, like their square footage and number of bathrooms. Each color represents a range and the amount of symbols in that color represents the exact number. For example, if a house has somewhere between 9-12 bathrooms, that will be represented by a line in a specific color. If you count how many lines are in that color, then you’ll know exactly how many bathrooms the house has. When seeing Manhattan from the 110th floor of the World Trade Center, de Certeau describes the view as “a wave of verticals.” His association between lines and colors in New York City also inspired a photography project where I documented the city through its abstract relationships between lines and colors and the way they fit together.
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