Created by Thomas James Lodato

The city and the body are similar in their cycles.

Both break.
Both must be fixed.
Both retain the marks of existence.

The following is an interactive map. It seeks to draw connections between how we mend our bodies and how we mend our spaces. Built and focused on the street skeleton of the city, rather than the landmarked skin, the map asks,

"How does our view of ourselves influence our view of our space?"
"How and when do outside elements become integrated into the whole?"
"What distinguishes that which is created to be indistinguishable?"

The skeleton is vastly overlooked as form awaiting functionality (Oh, how the muscles get all the credit!). The streets are no different--support for the "true" actors. Underneath the skin, underneath the sights, underneath the surface, these elements vibrate with purpose, and mediate all other practices. The skeleton denotes structure as much as it connotes potential.

The following films are placed on an actual space. That is, the ribcage and the city are (topologically) one-to-one. If one were to follow this as a guide, the places could be found, though the scars may have faded and the cuts may have scabbed.

In these questions and motivations, one can navigate a view of the cityscape stitched out of the aches of that space--those pieces we wait on to reclaim their original motion and aged form to maintain the city's body.