City is alive

The 'City Is Alive' artwork was based on a time when I went to London during lockdown to find a scarcity of people out past certain hours, yet London is still described as a lively city. 

What makes a city? Is it the people; the buildings; the history; all of the above? 

The people are stone and the buildings are personified and quite literal renditions or life, in essence the phrase the city is alive is coined in visual representation purely.

In modern life and many first world countries we fall into the trap of thinking wealth and or technology etc, means you are free, you can experience the world from your phone but does that mean we are free or trapped to what we think gives us freedom?

Freedom comes at a cost of self-liberation, people are often too scared to look inwards where the true freedom lies.

No one can concentrate, meditation is deemed hard when meditation is just allowing things to be with nothing else. So in essence we are so pent up from the world around us we cannot even do that.

The stone figures are frozen in a stone world more alive then them even though they wouldn't like to think it.

We work all our life to buy an inanimate object we call home to live in and provide us with the things that comfort only restrains.

Living uncomfortably has helped me personally break free from the drama, lies and rubbish especially the media has helped perpetuate in recent times.

This piece is all of the above and nothing at all.