New York City. Images by Natalie Poette.

The world’s great cities are concealed in shop windows. Illusions of perfection, they render passersby weak in the face of coming obsessions. In the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, people dedicate their lives to obtaining a tiny item. They work and spend again and again, servants of fashion’s temperamental moods.

Two worlds: real and illusive.

People meet each other in mirrored mazes and smile ambiguously. The illusion entangles and tenderly drops on our eyelids, wandering from right to wrong… Nobody questions or doubts anymore. We walk on the fragments of a city devoted to us, passing new worlds and converting them to meet our own projected reality. Or maybe this world is only a distorted projection of the world for which we have always been a reflection…

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