Cross Section
Photographs of Manhattan's architecture typically focus on the iconic skyscrapers or wide cityscape views. However, as a pedestrian in the streets views of these buildings are rarely clean, if one even looks up at all. Instead what is seen are intersections of brick, glass, and concrete compressed and juxtaposed at points of impact along the gridded streets. Buildings fuse and morph into one another and themselves, forming a sort of stratification, like layers in a cross section of the Earth, marking years of changing economic, artistic, and civic ambitions of the inhabitants below.