Mexican artist Jose Dávila imagines a world without iconic landmarks in his photo series, “There But Not”. He takes photographs of landscapes, and then tweaks each photo by neatly cutting the famous landmark out of the image, leaving an intriguing white silhouette in its place.
The artist emphasizes the “importance of context in architecture” through his works—making the viewer have a renewed awareness of space, and the relativity of architectural structures to their surroundings.
“What’s around a building is part of the building itself and vice versa,” writes the artist in his book, which showcases 100 photographs with erased landmarks.
[via Fast Company and Artchipel]