The first art work I chose was by Herwig Scherabon. He has a series of large scale prints that shows visualizations of median household income in selected cities. The images are abstract and on a high-resolution matrix of cubes. The height of the cubes corresponds to the income in the respective output area. The growing series currently covers Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Paris.
Herwig Scherabon intention was to show income segregation through images that shows the footprints of the city’s street grid. Here, income segregation is a literal wall in a geographic sense, where people from one area do not have access to the other. I really enjoyed the design of this piece , making the art work just black and white made it a very
the next piece I chose was the Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S Immigration by Pedro Cruz, John Wihbey, Avni Ghael, and Felipe Shibuya . The United States was envisioned as a tree through this art work, with shapes and growing patterns influenced by immigration. The nation, the tree, is hundreds of years old, and its cells are made out of immigrants. As time passes, the cells are deposited in decennial rings that capture waves of immigration. I thought this piece was beautiful and was very creative. The fact that these artists used a tree to express immagration this way was amazing to me , this is an ongoing project and i can’t wait to see what’s city they do next.
The third piece I chose was City and rural population. 1890. By Du Bois Graph shows numbers of African Americans living in small and large cities compared to rural environments. I like all the graph artwork pieces because I find it interesting. This was a really creative way to show this information.