PERSPECTIVES FROM THE IDEAL CITY
 

Perspectives from the Ideal City features a series of panoramic prints that document the condition of selected landmarks and civic structures that had, at some point or another, contributed to the identity of the nation. These structures are now at various states of abandonment, stasis or disappearance. The images reflect on how radically the city has departed from utopian models of idealised urban typologies. One such model references the renaissance Prospettivas, 'Verdute della Citta Ideale', now somewhat accepted as Piero della Francesca's work and commonly referred to as the Urbino, Baltimore and Berlin panels. The stark idealized landscapes represented a model city in all its rational clarity, with all its requisite civic iconography - a bibliotheque, a colosseum, a palazzo, an obelisk, a port, all laid out in full Cartesian logic.