Lego City is a statement on urbanity and the general interchangeability of cities in our globalized world. Is it Hong Kong? Singapore? Toronto? Vancouver? Dubai? It’s actually a mix of all of them.
Cities used to be the result of collective will and a desire to shape – to control – our environments. They were expressions of the things that happened in them.
Now they're about branding and image. Like plastic, like LEGO City, they're no longer built to last - they can be pulled down when fashions change. LEGO City expresses the modern absence of community in city-shaping.
Although stylized, these photographs of LEGO City show us how the line between plastic and uninhabited has become virtually indistinguishable from the “real thing”.
My photographs are a travelogue, window seat view through LEGO City… a Grand Tour across the seasons through a city that’s both everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Photographs of the LEGO Sculptures of Raymond Girard.
