Chicago Watertanks   Chicago Prize 2005   Honorable Mention City of Dreams

Finally, the city seems to rest, the pedestrians gone, the motor traffic slowed, the streets darkened.  But the daily cycle has been captured, as cameras on the watertanks have recorded what the city has experienced during the day.  Projected onto the watertanks at night, the city and its inhabitants recapture its events as if the city dreams of itself and its stories.  Changing daytime-images projected in rhythmic sequences create a sense of pulse. They will blur into one another. Moving through the city at night,  people remember the activity and vibrancy of the day, and the images of the silent memory on the watertanks embrace the city at night.  The watertank footage is the cycle of urban life, memories of the past, billboards of the future.