City Avenue

City Avenue
Steel veins pulse in fractured light,
Yellow beats through asphalt night.
Crosswalk dreams and echo grime,
A skyline smeared by debt and time.

This gouache on paper uses urban abstract expressionism, layering stencil-like grids, bold directional strokes, and scraped textures to evoke the rhythm and density of a bustling street. The palette of industrial yellows, greys, blacks, and reds suggests caution, commerce, and velocity. As part of the Credit Card Collection, it reflects a visual critique of metropolitan consumer culture, merging architecture and abstraction in a dynamic, semi-chaotic surface.