"The Urban Zen Project"

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       This photo montage series employs the notion of “culture jamming”. This is a solution commonly used among artists and designers to draw on the juxtaposition between unlike forces. In this instance, I play on the opposing nature of today’s urban culture and the Japanese gardens of antiquity. The viewer is drawn into a world of tranquility, tradition, and high-maintenance, only to be visually assaulted by that suggesting chaos, degeneration, and crime.