Broken

Broken transforms architectural photographs into geometric abstractions that examine order, disruption, and reconstruction. Through fragmentation and structural intervention, the series reimagines the architecture as a site of continual change.

Broken is an ongoing photographic and mixed-media project that investigates the relationship between architectural order and transformation. Beginning with photographs of New York City buildings, I fragment, shift, and reconstruct architectural structures through geometric interventions that challenge the stability of the original image.

Architecture often presents itself as a symbol of permanence. Yet every building contains evidence of adaptation, revision, and historical change. In Broken, I treat architecture not as a fixed object but as a dynamic system shaped by competing forces. Through processes of fragmentation, reflection, displacement, and reconstruction, facades become unstable fields in which order is continually renegotiated.

My approach is informed by both engineering and visual art. Trained as an engineer before becoming an artist, I am interested in the underlying systems that organize space. Influences from Bauhaus and Constructivist traditions inform the work’s geometric vocabulary, while photography provides a direct connection to the built environment. Geometry is not applied as decoration; it functions as an active structural force that interrupts, redirects, and redefines architectural logic.

The resulting works occupy a space between representation and abstraction. Familiar buildings remain visible, yet their forms are reorganized into new relationships that challenge assumptions about stability, function, and permanence. Architectural elements become metaphors for broader processes of change, adaptation, and reconstruction.

Rather than documenting the city, Broken explores how structures evolve through disruption. The project asks how systems persist despite fracture and how order emerges from continual transformation. Through this ongoing investigation, architecture becomes both subject and framework for examining the tensions between permanence and change.