City Refraction

City Refraction
The White Collar Project
From Foundation Seven — Collar Project Collection
Digital composition on printed canvas
60 × 90 cm (24 × 35 in)
2024

The City of London fractures into golden hour fragments, where the Thames becomes a mirror for architectural ambition and digital intervention. City Refraction captures the financial district at the moment when reality splits into parallel dimensions — each vertical band revealing a different frequency of the same urban truth.

The Gherkin, the Walkie-Talkie, and their glass-clad companions rise from the river like crystalline growths, their reflections multiplied and distorted through amber, teal, and coral filters. River traffic moves through liquid light while cranes reach toward a sky that shifts between documentary clarity and pure chromatic abstraction.

This is London as data visualization — each building a graph of capital, each reflection a different market reading. The orange intervention panels slice through the composition like economic indicators, transforming the cityscape into a living infographic of power and possibility.

The Thames doesn't just divide north from south; it divides what is from what could be. In this multiplied reality, every angle reveals new combinations of glass, light, and liquid ambition.

Part of Foundation Seven, this piece presents the financial heart of the capital as a kaleidoscope of competing realities — where architecture becomes algorithm, and the city reveals its infinite selves.