William Dolan

I explore the relationship of our society to the urban realm through an interpretation of the built environment. Focusing on outdated and well-worn bits of the city, the infrastructure that is left behind, as humans reshape their surroundings to support an increasingly homogeneous existence. These often-ignored places are reflective of the people that created and used them. Some of it will survive as an indication of what happened in the urban centers around the turn of the 21st. Century. Most of it will eventually disappear. It is this simultaneous ambivalence, and reverence that people have toward their habitat that I am demonstrating through my work.

The American city is ever-changing. As cultures continue to be economically and socially mobile, they are also physically on the move; one group leaves, another takes it’s place. Possibly, the constantly changing city is the most visible evidence of a society’s evolution.