Moment 36 - 1:13PM

BASKETBALL BEE 🏀🐝

In the heart of Manhattan, the honeycomb fences of the basketball courts cast their shadows onto the asphalt. Between harsh light and deep darkness, the scene transforms into urban abstraction a graphic composition, almost cinematic in nature.

These courts are places of life as much as of play. In the 1980s and 1990s, long before smartphones and social media, they were the beating heart of the neighborhoods the original social network, the one that existed in real life. No screens, no filters, no algorithms. Just bodies in motion, glances crossing, words exchanged. People knew where to go, and they went.

Rap was born there. Artists came to leave their music, their graffiti, their dance to seek a recognition that only the street could offer.

Entire generations were shaped around a ball and a hoop. It was where people gathered, competed, and passed down a culture. What our screens now try to convince us they can recreate, these courts had already lived for real in flesh, in movement, in presence.

This work captures in a single image everything New York City represents: a fence, a shadow, a court and suddenly, an entire era rises back to the surface. A time when the streets were alive, when culture was built under the open sky, and whose echo still resonates today in the city’s collective imagination.

MOMENT 36 — Basketball Bee —1:13PM

May 2024 - New York, USA

Size

Small : 65cm x 95cm

Medium : 85cmx125cm

Big: 185cmx125cm

(Unique piece per size 1/1)