Here is a collection of black-and-white (really, greyscale) images from Chicago, taken in September of 2013. Downtown Chicago is architectural and monumental, framed with vertical and horizontal lines, and decorated with neo-gothicism. Most of these pictures have a solarization effect applied here (three don’t, can you identify them?), primarily because I didn’t feel like I was able to get the camera to capture enough depth of color and tone for portraying the true essence of the city in a straighter rendition. But the effect creates an ambiguity between night and day, and between sun and shade. It casts the cityscape, and the detailed views, in a silent, surreal freeze.

I was originally going to use these for the wall gallery opposite my breakfast nook, but decided on the sepia Turkey images instead. Here is a mockup of the design I was intending:

For fun, I was also going to sprinkle in color substitutions for one or two of the images in the gallery, changing up the specific substitutions periodically. But at this point, I don’t think this gallery will be built (I created framed proofs of several of the pictures last year, but those have been given away). I may, however, go back to the originals for a few of the images and develop them into individual pieces.