In large cities there is a dense quality which lends itself to crowded, cluttered scenes. As a native New Yorker I have spent most of my life staking claim to small spaces: 600-square-foot apartments, single rooms I can call my own, and particular moments in time where I could be - for a moment - uninterrupted. Each of these photos in some way represents a portion of time when a person or an event was able to express itself totally alone among some of the thickest landscape on earth.