Linescapes: Aestheticizing Chaos of Urban Infrastructure

In this MFA degree exhibition, Annie Pacaña explores the layers of meanings encrypted in the city’s urban forms as she explores linescapes, kaleidoscapes and soundscapes. Here, a flattening of the city is explored through photography and drawing, and set into motion via digital media, which are the proponent’s tools as a visual communicator. Even the city’s soundscape, its pulse, its irregular heartbeat, is a multi-layered waveform creating an interference – a disruption, a disturbance, a displacement, whose chaos one can come to appreciate. All the images utilized are culled from the proponent’s own travels around Metro Manila in the course of her study from 2015, reflecting her accumulating and compounding connection with the city as she traverses it day by day on foot, by car, or by train.