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Jack Dahlgren:
Starting this with the simplest image of shadow and light

Jack Dahlgren:
Tokyo is a city with few right angles anywhere. But there are many patterns of repetition.

Jack Dahlgren:
If one is good, more are better

Jack Dahlgren:
An example of function over form is this subway entrance which takes its design from some unknown logic of underground foundations and utilities, or the imagination of an anti-Cartesian.

Jack Dahlgren:
But all is not random. This area where the financial powers have a way to bend space to their will is filled with regularity unseen elsewhere. The Imperial powers have a way of preserving space - thus you see the wide open areas in the foreground. At one time in during the boom of the 1980’s Akira tells me that the land on which the palace sits was as valuable as the entire state of California. I think the equation has shifted since then.

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