The Concept Behind STRADAL
Everything began in my hometown, Bucharest. The city inspired me to create this series of compositions. A place layered with contrasts — color and decay, carefully restored buildings alongside others on the verge of collapse. A complex urban landscape, waiting to be explored and reinterpreted through a creative lens.
This is the first artwork in the collection — the experiment that proved successful.
STRADAL was born from a need to slow down
and truly see the city.
Bucharest is a place of constant contrast — beauty and decay, history and improvisation, silence and chaos existing side by side. Streets we pass every day often dissolve into routine, their details fading into the background. STRADAL seeks to pause that movement and bring those overlooked fragments back into focus.
Each artwork begins with walking. Photographing. Observing. Every façade along a single street is documented individually — not as isolated buildings, but as parts of a larger urban rhythm. These fragments are then carefully reconstructed into a single architectural composition, creating a fictional structure built entirely from real places. What emerges is not a literal representation, but a distilled portrait of the street’s identity.
Through this process, STRADAL explores the idea of place as memory. Light, texture, and proportion become tools for storytelling, revealing how cities carry traces of time, change, and human presence. By compressing an entire street into one image, the project invites viewers to rediscover Bucharest not as a map, but as an emotional and architectural landscape — one meant to be explored, collected, and lived with.