fortunes in the city is a mixed media ode to my life in my hometown, san francisco. the places shown are those that i have fond memories of or was familiar with. most are of locations that may seem mundane at first to an outsider, but i think my goal is to make personal scenes that seem mundane, scenes that viewers can still empathize with. in addition to various words written by me on some of my thoughts on life on fortune cookie paper slips, each photograph also incorporates what i like to call "digital graffiti", where i place clips of an image slideshow in various places on the background image as if they are also part of the scene, to invoke a sense of movement in a static picture. perhaps a scene devoid of movement or emotion is brimming with life if you look close enough. (gifs may take some time to load)