Hasta La Ideas

In a twist on the Tao tenet of emptiness, New York City is a place where empty space can be worth more than anything that one might fill it with—so goes the real estate industry in our fair city. Yet overdevelopment is all the more reason for urbanites to appreciate negative space as respite from the never-ending crowds. Whether or not you dwell in a concrete jungle, it’s a pleasant surprise to have the chance to appreciate a bustling neighborhood’s negative architectural space in from an unexpected perspective.

New York City-based artist Peter Wegner took to the urban streets and turned the city’s famed cityscape upside down to unveil his own natural—and otherwise invisible—inverted constructions.

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