The most densely populated place in Minneapolis is a 4-city block apartment complex known as Cedar-Plaza. Designed in bauhaus style by architect Ralph Rapson, Cedar Plaza opened in 1973 (the same year I was born), and immediately became an icon to the seven corners neighborhood of the West Bank. I lived in the tallest M-building during the summer of 1992 and have been fascinated with the changing social landscape and diversity of cultures here ever since. This set explores the dense spaces that have served as the framework for waves of immigrant communities to the city. There is deep complexity and beauty in the lines and shadowplay found in early morning light throughout the site. I try to convey the spaces largely without direct human elements in the framing - or from a distance - playing with the relationship between people and their common environment (VRK).
