The Glass Border

• Photographer
  Lilyan Aloma
• Technical Info
  Iphone Pro Max 16
• Photo Date
  2021-2025

This work evolved from my ongoing fascination with reflection. As my intrigue grew, I explored this idea through different camera formats, finally arriving at the freedom of my cellphone. The subject, as always, New York City, as it reflects its cityscape through its commercial windows. The idea of a glass border, a transparent surface that physically separates, but acts to unify both sides of this glass partition was the draw. At the border of this merger, the boundaries of perception blur, as inner and the outer worlds blend, manifesting an abstraction, an illusion, challenging my process of

At the heart of my photographic work over the past twenty years has been my fascination with Manhattan’s cityscape, and its constant evolution. Between 2003 and 2009 I had 3 solo exhibitions at OK Harris Works of Art, entitled, Mecca or Madness, Billscapes, and Deconstruction. Each body of work, while linked in a perceptual investigation of urban environment, has expressed this mission in a uniquely different way. Manhattan’s constantly changing visual plan continues to inspire me to explore its physical complexity. More recently, I have included toy cameras and my cell phone in my toolbox.