Solutions for the City

My painting practice at the moment is based on ideas from urban designer Jane Jacobs who believed that to solve for problems of the city it helps to think about processes; to work inductively, reasoning from particulars to the general, rather than the reverse and to seek for ‘unaverage’ clues involving very small quantifiers, which reveal the way larger and more ‘average’ quantities are operating. The first series helped me synthesize the causes of wicked problems in urban spaces, recounting stories from my formative years as an artist without a home. And I’m now starting a new series called “Solutions for the City” where I imagine a city aware of its past designed with compassion for its inhabitants. My fourth fashion collection explores cultural cross over of bootlegging and overconsumption in the Philippines. I’m collaborating with co-designers Yron Gerona and Harvey Nichol on this collection. 

- Noah Milo (current AUArts student)