City Life

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"And so he spent his final years in solitude, watching the shadows move from dawn to dusk, seeing the lights of the city blink at night."


After launching "City Lights", I started animating some of the scenes to send as a gift to collectors. A few more iterations later, this started to feel like it deserved its own fxhash project, which turned into "City Life". This work attempts to evoke a meditative feeling by carefully balancing features like density, size and color. It aims to add a sense of depth with the most basic shading and perspective, and it suggests the presence of life merely through the play of light and shade. On a sufficiently powerful machine, each animation loop should take about a minute to complete. Press space bar in the live view to download an mp4 encoded video of the animation. London, December 2021.