I used hatching to show texture and to create form throughout the work. Much of the drawing was done using 0.03mmweight pens, because this allowed me to achieve the greatest level of detail. I used Uni-Pin Fine line pens for their consistently black pigment. Ultimately, my main inspiration and drive is the history of cities and what must be done to create a sustainable, liveable future, which I learn about online and through reading books.Ĭonstruction of an Urban Highway is a quadriptych (four panel) fibre-tipped pen on paper drawing. Jeffrey Smarts’ depictions of “man in his new violent environment”, and his hyper-realist urban vistas also served as inspiration throughout my practice.

I was inspired by the work of Adam Paul Susaneck, an NYC based architect whose ongoing personal project “Segregation By Design” documents the destruction of communities of colour due to red-lining, “urban renewal”, and freeway construction, all funded by the 1956 Federal Interstate Highway Act.

This history was the starting point for my work I wanted to tell this story in a visually engaging way that can grab the attention of audiences, in my aim to spread awareness of how destructive cars really are to our cities and our lives. I watched videos and read about the history of transportation in cities, and learnt about the history of how cars came to be such a dominant part of our lives, the history of the automobile lobby, and the violent legacy of how streets and cities were transformed into environments for cars, hostile to people. “Construction of an Urban Highway” depicts the apocalyptic scenes across the United States as massive swathes of cities were demolished, efficient public transport networks entirely dismantled and hundreds of thousands of citizens were displaced from their homes to make way for the radical new highway network, obliterating entire communities and fracturing cities forever. The Eisenhower administration’s 1956 Federal Interstate Highway act was driven by the maniacal capitalistic interests of the Automobile industry, and sought to assert the dominance of the automobile as the primary mode of transportation in all American cities. Waverley Christian College, Wantirna South Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, Essendon

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