SYNTHETIC SYNESTHESIA
The urban landscape dissolves into streams of color and movement, where synthetic light and shadow intertwine to create a heightened, almost surreal sensory experience. I try to capture the pulse of city life and our complex, layered immersion within it, moments of neon and shadow that blend, distort, and shimmer like echoes from a shared dream. A cross-wiring of senses, where blurred hues and fragmented lights translate the sensory overload of urban existence.

I once believed the city’s energy was essential to my own, its culture a dynamic force woven into my life. Culture, rich and endlessly fascinating, is ultimately a construct, an elaborate illusion of light, stories, and noise. Beneath this synthetic glow lies nature, holding the quiet, enduring truths that ground us in something real, something constant, something the city has decided is no longer needed.

The city’s relentless pulse, its ambient haze, now quickly pushes me out. The buildings, stacked with people and electrified with artificial light, have become overwhelming, stifling, like too-thick air. While I still appreciate my occasional incursions, drawn to the beauty in its orchestrated chaos, I find myself returning to the woods, more attuned to its gentle input on my wired nervous system and the chance to breathe a little better. -READ FULL STORY