City

Taking the bus through a city makes you get to know the city on a human level. Whenever the bus stops, you are forced to pause as well and take in the city from the vantage point of that stop. You also encounter the city through the people who get on and off the bus. Some carry a whole lot of luggage, some hobble, some look utterly bored. When you miss your stop, you have to get off at the next stop and walk back to where you were supposed to have gotten off. Some sidewalks are so narrow and bumpy that you walk almost brushing one of your shoulders against the houses and buildings that you pass by. Now on foot, everything you take in is human-sized. 

When a photograph of a city is taken by a drone from the sky, the city looks expansive. You see the entirety of it and you cannot imagine yourself being within it. But when a city becomes human-sized and you see that it is also a place where other people walk and take buses to go to where they need to go, it becomes a personal place. The walls that your hand can graze as you walk feels as if they are for that moment there for you. They are solid. The city teems with movement but its structures feel undeniably present. There, your relationship with the city begins.