New York Oneiric is a photographic exploration of a city suspended between reality and reverie. Inspired by Paul Auster’s line, “The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change,” from his book The New York Trilogy, this series delves into the timeless, haunting quality of New York—a place that seems at once familiar and unreachable, solid yet steeped in mystery.
In these images, I seek to capture New York as an eternal city, caught in an endless present where light and shadow distort the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined. Each photograph is a portal into a New York that remains constant even as it shifts and evolves, a city that feels like it holds infinite stories beneath its surfaces.
Through New York Oneiric, I invite viewers to step into a dreamlike vision of the city, where every street and skyline becomes part of a larger, unchanging story. This series is my homage to a New York that exists beyond time—a place that will always remain, as Auster says, right here and right now.
**The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, composed of City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, is a unique blend of postmodern detective fiction and philosophical meditation.
Each novel explores themes of identity, reality, language, and the act of writing itself, while questioning the nature of narrative and the self in a way that challenges traditional genre boundaries.**
