I explore the life-sized model and walk under the gaze of surveillance cameras toward the conquering sentinel towers, like glass soldiers guarding the poverty checkpoints.

The clean lines and shapes of locked-down buildings accompany the crossing of this impersonal, interchangeable world.

A commercial city, where dynamic customers move from one air conditioning unit to another along the powdered sugar-coated aisles.

In the distance, cranes continue to echo the urban conquest to the rhythm of real estate speculation.

The new City rises from the ground:

A fantasized skyline traced on tracing paper of the globalized city.

Immaculate architecture reflecting a prohibited social energy.

An imagination without imagination, varnished with a modernity devoid of beauty.