Infrordinaries
The portfolio of “Infraordinaries” aims to make people pay more attention to daily surroundings and discover the beauty among them. The process of waking out in the world and taking pictures of objects is the process of the familiar becoming unfamiliar.
I walked in rural areas in Chapel Hill and have also been to megacities like New York City. Between these two places, familiar and unfamiliar sparks massive collisions. To explain this, southerners might find New York City an extremely different place and lifestyle, in that it has powerful transportation, not many people commute by car but by subway instead. The way the streets are organized, how many skyscrapers there are, the how diverse the ethnic is in the city might be very unfamiliar to Southerners. The diversity of restaurants, art exhibits, and fashions are overwhelmingly different and unfamiliar. My picture of a door with red tagline was taken in the subway in New York City, yes, it is dirty on the wall, the subway stinks, but this is just the daily, aka the familiarity of New Yorkers.
