The Broken Project
2025-2026
Broken transforms photographs of New York City architecture into geometric abstractions that examine migration as a force of continual transformation.
Through fragmentation, reflection, and structural intervention, the series reveals how architecture absorbs traces of movement, memory, and shifting identity—inviting viewers to reconstruct spaces that appear permanent but are continually being rewritten.
Load-Bearing Shift (Facade Study I)
2026
A structural interruption transforms the facade into a field of conditional adjustment, questioning the stability of architectural order.
Reflection Grid: Imposed Light
2026
Light reorganizes the building’s surface, turning reflection into structure and destabilizing architectural certainty.
Load-Bearing Shift (Elevation Study II)
2026
Architectural elevation is fragmented and reconstructed, revealing transformation as an active structural condition.
Displaced Order (Lower Manhattan)
2026
Architectural fragments are reorganized into a new arrangement that challenges assumptions of permanence and control.
Downtown Story
2026
Layers of intervention and reconstruction expose the city as an evolving structure shaped by continual change.
Surface Tension
2026
Windows and reflections create a layered grid in which surface, depth, and structure become difficult to separate.
Dynamic Equilibrium
2026
Windows and reflections create a layered grid in which surface, depth, and structure become difficult to separate.
Broken Statement
In the Broken series, I begin with photographs of New York City architecture and transform them through geometric fragmentation and digital intervention. Drawing on my background in engineering and my experience as a Romanian-born artist living in New York, the work explores the tension between structural stability and shifting identity.
Architecture becomes both subject and metaphor. Facades are broken, reconfigured, and reconstructed into compositions that oscillate between representation and abstraction. Rather than depicting migration directly, I examine it as a force of transformation—one that reshapes memory, identity, and the built environment. My interventions reveal the structural traces of these changes, inviting viewers to reconstruct a city continually rewritten by human movement.
The Process
Downtown Story began with a simple realization: I missed downtown Manhattan.
What started as an exploration of architecture and geometry evolved into a reflection on memory, change, and belonging in a city that is constantly reinventing itself.