New York, NY, 2019
Archival pigment print
20 × 24 inch, edition 10
37 × 45 ¾ inch, edition 5
June 15, 2026
This image takes one of the ubiquitous "sidewalk superintendent" view-holes at a construction site in New York City, and makes it seem like a window into another dimension, where rebar sprouts like wildflowers. Japanese photographer Yoko Ikeda is a master of making magic from the mundane. Her embrace of portals as a recurring framing device invites us to peer inside her world, and suggests that sustained looking can be a transportive act.
