Isidro Blasco, a Spanish artist who currently resides in New York, uses a unique combination of photography, architecture and installation in order to to explore physical and psychological terrains. More of the author's works are available at his website.
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By combining C-Prints with wood and other hardware, Blasco transforms once two-dimensional photographs into 3D representations of space.
Above: Subway Entrance
Above: Subway Entrance
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Underground Passages (Green Stairs)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
Underground Passages (Green Column)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
"I take the subway every day from my home in Jackson Heights to the studio in Bushwick, and very often I find myself looking at a particular corner or stairs, or section of the tracks. Every time they look very similar but not the same as the day before," Blasco said.
Above: Underground Passages (Morgan Ave)
Above: Underground Passages (Morgan Ave)
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Underground Passages (Litter Stop)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
Underground Passages (Black and White)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
"And I wonder if other people like me also look at these same sections of the subway system, and if by this looking that we all do, somehow we are effectively changing those places," the author mused.
Above: Underground Passages (Yellow Stairs).
Above: Underground Passages (Yellow Stairs).
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
Underground Passages (Metropolitan)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
Underground Passages (Purple)
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© Photo : Isidro Blasco
"I am guessing all this is just an effort to relate to these places. There is an emotional restraint that we all exercise, conveying not destruction but disorientation, the unsettlingly simultaneous expansion and compression of space that the urban dweller experiences in their way through the city and through its underground," Blasco concluded.
Above: Underground Passages (Exit)
Above: Underground Passages (Exit)
