ICP Teen Academy
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Max Markarian
I have long believed that New York City is something more than a city. Once you live in New York for long enough, you start to notice patterns, moments, feelings that become too repetitive to be coincidence. When we first made this city, we held complete control over its architecture, its infrastructure, and its aesthetic. But nowadays, I often see people struggling to control the very city that they created, almost as if the city itself has evolved into something more. Do we truly control New York, or does New York control us? My project is an answer to that question, an attempt to capture what New York truly is. In reality, we control the city and the city controls us. We feed the city and the city feeds us. We are a symbiotic entity that cannot be fully comprehended by any one person. We are New York and New York is us.
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