This A2 collage depicts my journey on the city streets where I found an interest in the paradoxical existence of the natural environment within the predominately built area we associate with the urban context of "City Centre".
There is an interplay of the "folds of nature" highlighted by the trees standing freely in the park, lined along York Street, accompanying the nearby church, office buildings and shops. Within such a busy and people-populated location, it may seem that trees have been merely overlooked and forgotten. However, upon this evocative journey, the trees appeared to have dominated my vision of the city I used to refer to with its shopping departments and exclusive brands.
The water ornaments located in Circular Quay flows under this idea of folds and continuity, metaphorically portraying "waters" of the "solid pleats of natural geography" from Deleuze's "The Fold - Leibniz and the Baroque". This physical representation of the natural environment appealed the sensual experience of the whole body, through its coolness, fluidity, and its calming yet enlivening sounds it makes as it flows down to the fountain basin.
This expedition has become paramount in the way I correlate with the term "City Centre" in that the natural environment has its speciality in representing the once non-contaminated Earth we have come to build on as "land-owning inhabitants".
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