Brooklyn-based artist and programmer Clement Valla, whose work we spotted over on Fubiz, got his start working as architect; you can spot evidence of this in his series Bridges, which uses cropped images from Google Earth to transform familiar sights like the Golden Gate Bridge into distorted, surreal structures that are almost impossible to recognize. “When my programs run their course, inherent contradictions and absurd situations result from the very structure of the system itself, producing unfamiliar artifacts and juxtapositions,” he explains. “Like an anamorphic projection, my programs produce distortions that reveal their own underlying logic, but also point to the system as it functions when we fail to notice it — when it works conventionally.” Click through to check out a selection of our favorite warped bridges.
George Washington Bridge, NYC
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Le Pont de Normandie, France
Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada/Arizona
Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado
Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, New York City
Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco
Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, China