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City of Cells

Human life is encapsulated—enclosed within spheres resembling the mechanisms of a machine. Each window reflects a fragmented existence, mirroring the digital and physical servers that define contemporary life. It is a city of cells, where life, machine, and architecture converge.

Awards

Color Photography Contest

2025

Honorable Mention

Architecture

Non Professional

City of Cells

Human life is encapsulated—enclosed within spheres resembling the mechanisms of a machine. Each window reflects a fragmented existence, mirroring the digital and physical servers that define contemporary life. It is a city of cells, where life, machine, and architecture converge.

About Artist

Jordan Crowder

Jordan Crowder is a Canadian writer, artist, and architectural designer whose work investigates the intersection of architecture, phenomenology, critical theory, and digital cultures. His autoethnographic thesis and accompanying gallery exhibition examined the erosion of the body and architecture in the “server city” through the lens of the rooftop, framed by his disembodying experience with a neurodegenerative condition. This research informs his current project, which examines the body and the city’s respective reductions through the server—while the rooftop as both metaphor and space remain a site of resistance and reconnection to the real as his abilities fade. Jordan’s ongoing work expands through photography, writing, and storytelling, investigating the relationship between the body, architecture, and the hyperreal. The mood I’m in and the emotions I want to express are an amplifier and motivator to take photos. I want my photos to speak to me of a specific time, place, event, and experience. A way to playback what has passed and allow the memories to live a second longer. I capture to trace back later what I felt, to hold still, what I remembered, the emotions, the intensity, the heaviness, the vehemence in the nostalgia. A way to trigger my memory.

Jordan Crowder

Photographic Areas of Focus

Architecture, Landscapes

Location

Canada

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