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Underground Passages: The Hidden Side of New York's Subway

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Isidro Blasco, a Spanish artist who currently resides in New York, uses a unique combination of photography, architecture and installation in order to to explore physical and psychological terrains. More of the author's works are available at his website.

© Photo : Isidro BlascoBy combining C-Prints with wood and other hardware, Blasco transforms once two-dimensional photographs into 3D representations of space.

Above: Subway Entrance
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By combining C-Prints with wood and other hardware, Blasco transforms once two-dimensional photographs into 3D representations of space.

Above: Subway Entrance
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Green Stairs)
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Underground Passages (Green Stairs)
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Green Column)
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Underground Passages (Green Column)
© Photo : Isidro Blasco"I take the subway every day from my home in Jackson Heights to the studio in Bushwick, and very often I find myself looking at a particular corner or stairs, or section of the tracks. Every time they look very similar but not the same as the day before," Blasco said.

Above: Underground Passages (Morgan Ave)
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"I take the subway every day from my home in Jackson Heights to the studio in Bushwick, and very often I find myself looking at a particular corner or stairs, or section of the tracks. Every time they look very similar but not the same as the day before," Blasco said.

Above: Underground Passages (Morgan Ave)
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Litter Stop)
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Underground Passages (Litter Stop)
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Black and White)
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Underground Passages (Black and White)
© Photo : Isidro Blasco"And I wonder if other people like me also look at these same sections of the subway system, and if by this looking that we all do, somehow we are effectively changing those places," the author mused.

Above: Underground Passages (Yellow Stairs).
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"And I wonder if other people like me also look at these same sections of the subway system, and if by this looking that we all do, somehow we are effectively changing those places," the author mused.

Above: Underground Passages (Yellow Stairs).
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Metropolitan)
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Underground Passages (Metropolitan)
© Photo : Isidro BlascoUnderground Passages (Purple)
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Underground Passages (Purple)
© Photo : Isidro Blasco"I am guessing all this is just an effort to relate to these places. There is an emotional restraint that we all exercise, conveying not destruction but disorientation, the unsettlingly simultaneous expansion and compression of space that the urban dweller experiences in their way through the city and through its underground," Blasco concluded.

Above: Underground Passages (Exit)
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"I am guessing all this is just an effort to relate to these places. There is an emotional restraint that we all exercise, conveying not destruction but disorientation, the unsettlingly simultaneous expansion and compression of space that the urban dweller experiences in their way through the city and through its underground," Blasco concluded.

Above: Underground Passages (Exit)
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