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Description
The big city can be overwhelming to those who aren’t used to the buzz and slight chaos that ensues every day in a metropolitan street. The city never sleeps, and mass transit is the blood that flows endlessly through her. The subways, cabs, and buses provide us with more than just rides, they provide us with insight and exposure to some of the unique personalities and peoples that thrive in the urban jungle. For some however, these modes of transportation just add yet another element of bodily and psychological gridlock, causing uneasiness and anxiety among the sea of people. This tension often spirals the overwhelmed into further panic, resulting in further isolation, leaving them feeling completely ALONE despite being in a city FULL of people. This book reflects that feeling not just through poem, but through the books imagery, which depicts photographs from my own bus rides where citizens have been physically cut from the scene and placed into a separate frame, elaborating their psychological quarantine…A reclusion from the strangers.
Type
Article
College
Information Technology & Resources
Unit
University Libraries
Location
John C. Hitt Library
Department
Special Collections & University Archives
Type
image
Recommended Citation
Stefan, Aaron, "Strangers on the City Bus" (2018). 13th Annual Student Book Arts Competition. 10.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/bookartsexhibit-13thannual/10
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