Foresight: World Trade Center I, USA

From Motoda's Foresight series, this 2017 lithograph reimagines the rebuilt One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as a derelict spire rising from a depopulated city. The print is finished with applied silver foil, a departure from the artist's usual monochrome palette that lends the tower's glass cladding a metallic, almost reliquary quality. As in the earlier Revelation works, Motoda renders the architecture with measured draftsmanship — accurate proportions, careful perspective lines — while introducing creeping vegetation, broken pavement, and the absence of human figures. The choice of subject is pointed: a building that itself replaced a site of collapse is shown collapsing again, compressing past, present, and projected futures into a single image. The silver foil catches ambient light differently from print to print, so each impression behaves slightly differently on the wall, complicating the otherwise documentary tone of the lithograph.