Amsterdam, Bricks

Amsterdam, Bricks began as a formal exercise, learning the view camera through the Amsterdamse School, the brick modernism scattered across the city. Eventually I realized it was more than a formal exploration. I treat the city as a text, reading it slowly and with suspicion, for what it reveals and for what it withholds. The buildings, the windows, the objects left behind, the inscriptions I cannot read, each one a layer in a palimpsest that speaks of culture, history, memory, and belonging. This tension between presence and absence invites reflection on how we inhabit cities and how cities, in turn, inhabit us.