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Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty VIII

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24.10.2025

Architect: Christian Portzamparc: ONE 57.

Walt Disney’s The Wonderful World of Color– -comes to mind:

RabelaisIan worlds explode upon contact like a supernova inviting intimate lovers and expansive dream makers to seek the great divide: I see the reflections beyond buildings, cities, continents and more: I am transported to the mingling of numbers on a page: 118 elements that are us.

Photography measures the distance between where you stand, what you see and where you dream…math and science become elixirs: The necessity for experiments and numbers to matter: To map the ages of time before the narrow light of the day vanishes: That is photography: That is the world ahead and beyond.

I see the migration of incongruent colors: My eyes rest: Artists’ Vermeer, Hopper, DaVinci or the ultramarine Yves Klein canvases flaming into deep furnaces: The expectation is akin to waiting for the atom to split and make brilliance in the sky: It is the manner I always intend to see my captures- -the way I hope to see: My aspirations are........

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