Shadow Dancer might be my personal favorite of the bunch, or maybe I'm just partial to ninja dogs and
decaying urban landscapes.
Players aren't just limited to the fields of Montana in the toolbox and I found
some decayed urban landscapes to explore through that would've been right at home in a sequel to The Last of Us.
Not exact matches
But because of it, residents live amongst an unusual
landscape — a pattern of
urban decay means that the peripheries of the city resemble a graveyard of half - funded construction projects.
Drawing inspiration from the rawness and
decay of the
urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large - scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.
A native Californian and adopted New Yorker, Hugo McCloud is a self - taught, multimedia artist inspired by
urban landscapes and
decay.
The highly stylized photographic work looked to preserve the strangeness of
urban decay and suburban contexts as
landscapes for cultural definition in America during the era.
Whether these be the idyllic
landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and
urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.
It will feature a selection of the artist's highly - textured paintings that represent essential features of the
urban landscape, especially those of Latin American megacities, where qualities of density, neglect and
decay are obvious.
If in the first instance she poses questions about the current state of the construction, development, use, and
decay of spaces that are apparently peripheral to the city, in the second she manages to provoke a dialogue about the different elements that make up the physical reality of the
urban landscape, in its constant transformation through demolitions, excavations, construction materials, and contemporary ruins.
Physical
decay of the
urban landscape is juxtaposed with a remarkable formal beauty just as, in a more conceptual sense, time and timelessness contend with each other in these works.