Mirages #4 employs floating architecture photography to visualize unrealizable urban idealization—glass building appearing suspended unpolluted in sky, camouflaged through reflection as crystalline mass above all things. Rey captures the fragile utopian fantasy where contemporary society deposits ideas of unattainable perfection. The reflective surface creates bridge between natural and artificial, suggesting monumental modern city's vulnerability threatened by inhabitants' rudeness, floating as mirage rather than grounded reality.
 
Mirages, the idea of the monumental, utopian and modern city is constantly debated due to its own fragility. The idealization of the city is weak and vulnerable, threatened by the rudeness of its inhabitants. Mirages is a project that interprets this unrealizable idea of the city, creating a route of buildings that seem to float unpolluted, breaking the uniformity of the sky and integrating into it like castles of glass, where contemporary society deposits the idea of unattainable perfection. These crystalline masses reflect the sky as if they were above all things, camouflaging themselves, creating a bridge between the natural and the artificial.
 
Floating architecture photography visualizing utopian urban fantasy—glass building suspended as crystalline mirage. Mirages #4 by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.