Eutropia is a city multiplied upon itself. Only one version of the city is occupied at any given moment, while the rest lay in waiting, perfectly untouched. When the citizens of Eutropia tire of their present existence, when they grow wary of the people and places that make up their routine, they collectively pick up and move to another version of their city, rearrange themselves and start anew. Upon opening their windows, they find a different view of the landscape and there they take up new jobs, lovers, hobbies and friends. In this sense, Eutropians possess the unique capacity to relinquish their identity, take flight and renew their lives, all within the confines of one city that somehow escapes set notions of boundaries.
I attempted to represent these perpetual lines of escape in the crevices and shadow play of paper cuttings. The occupied version of Eutropia is depicted in the paper itself, while layers of potential lives reflect upon and through mirrored, slightly distorted versions of the cityscape as visions of endless opportunity.
The paper cuttings themselves served merely as a tool for the photographs I took, for only in the photographs can you see the city set alive by the rotating sun and twisting winds. The city itself is in constant motion as light bounces between the layers, casting shadows of one stage of life upon dreams of the next.
