CITIES X HDEMIA

RDAM

Rdam is the first chapter of the ongoing project Cities. A series of artistic portraits capturing cities at specific moments of expression—through design, architecture and art, as they keep changing, over time, into the stories that shape their contemporary and everyday life.

IT IS MORNING IN ROTTERDAM,

THE DAY IS SHAKING OF THE NIGHT, LIKE A DOG DOES WITH WATER.

I CAN SEE THE RIVER FROM MY WINDOW,

A LAZY REFLECTION OF THE SUN.

IS NOT RAINING TODAY, BUT I HEAR THE WIND.

BIKES CUT TROUGH THE SILENCE, TRAMS ARE BEGINNING THEIR LOOP.

THE SKY BREAKS OPEN AND LIGHT HITS THE WET PAVEMENT.

NOTHING FANCY, JUST REAL.

THIS IS MY CITY: RAW, FAST, MODERN.

BUT ALWAYS FAMILIAR,

LIKE A SONG YOU NEVER HEARD BUT ALREADY KNOW BY HEART.

ROTTERDAM DOESN’T WAKE UP ALL AT ONCE,

IT GROWS UNTIL SUDDENLY IT’S ALIVE.

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WHAT MAKES A CITY?

A CITY IS SOUNDS.

NOISE.

VOICES, WIND, WATER.

MOVEMENT.

A FLASH OF COLOR.

THE LIFE OF THE DAY, THE PULSE OF THE NIGHT.

SHAPES.

A CITY IS TIME.

TIME IS TRANSFORMATION, TRANSFORMATION MAKE STORIES.

STORIES MAKE A CITY.