Ezra Cattan
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CIVIL ENTERPRISE

After 26 years in New York, moving to San Francisco was like stepping off the tilt-a-whirl.  The camera helped shift my eye down from hilly vistas to a more grounded and surprisingly accessible ‘user experience’.  In a sense, San Francisco comes with a backstage pass.  While I eventually came to acknowledge San Francisco as a bona fide city, I have not let go of the idea that San Francisco is still emerging as a fully realized urban center.

Civil Enterprise features three groups of work.  Civil Enterprise takes center stage with a full frame documentary style that mingles with bold lines, colors, and textures.  Weathered Landscapes, done in sepia tone, provide a stronger dose of environment without losing the urban sensibility that is so much a part of my work.  Lastly, Urban Textures uses tighter frames and mild abstractions to detail our everyday urban surroundings.




SEA RANCH TYPOLOGIES

Built to harmonize with the site’s steep oceanfront cliffs and grassy mesas, Sea Ranch’s beauty and tranquility depend on its adherence to a tight set of guidelines that promote sameness and discourage the diversity of architectural forms.  While most planned-community architecture reflects mainstream societal norms, Sea Ranch appeals to a less practical ideological sensibility.  To be fair, Sea Ranch was never an evangelical construct, and its “purity” is based predominantly on aesthetics, which made it a somewhat uncontrolled social experiment.


REGIONAL UNDERPINNINGS

Built to harmonize with the site’s steep oceanfront cliffs and grassy mesas, Sea Ranch’s beauty and tranquility depend on its adherence to a tight set of guidelines that promote sameness and discourage the diversity of architectural forms.  While most planned-community architecture reflects mainstream societal norms, Sea Ranch appeals to a less practical ideological sensibility.  To be fair, Sea Ranch was never an evangelical construct, and its “purity” is based predominantly on aesthetics, which made it a somewhat uncontrolled social experiment.


LONDON BRUTALIST




THE SHAPE OF LIGHT
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