Things Inside Other Things
Rush hour 17:00–18:00.
Four one–hour recordings were made in four main public squares of the divided city of Nicosia. The plain canvas follows a subdivision process that is fed by the numerical values of the city’s soundscape. As the output moves towards ambiguity and all recognizable elements disappear, the observer is confronted with an abstract map that no longer carries cultural characteristics of ‘this’ or ‘the other’ community and no longer forces comparative connotations. It is instead offered as an unsolvable riddle, a new kind of city map generated by the city itself. The produced drawing’s constellations emerge at manifold scales, as the data that feed the algorithms determine the overall form as well as generate various miniscule details. The drawings, though computationally designed, exist as such only in printed form, where the scale of each of their components can be directly related to one’s observation distance.
