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This project is based on a question that I've been interested in for the past twenty years in my work - How do we define place? Is it people, is it landscape, is it demographics, is it architecture, philosophy or cultural trends? What is the physical and psychic evidence of history left behind?
During the process of creating this work a new question has emerged - If a community had control and unlimited resources to develop organically, what would it look like? What would its future look like?
At this point in time, with the development of global capitalism advancing at extraordinary speed, the character of neighborhoods and communities are changing more rapidly than ever before. Neighborhoods have become microcosms for larger world communities. As it becomes easier to communicate with others around the world, we are learning that diversity, both global and local, is a basic reality. Diversity offers an opportunity for neighborhood residents to establish a sort of ownership of their own community culture. This binds people together in deep and meaningful ways. In contrast, corporate culture tends to atomize the community into individual consuming units, useful for the purpose of expanding the economy but isolating and alienating each member from one another.
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