One shot: Vertigo

Before the buildings, or their exit lanes – the streets gave me vertigo in Downtown Miami. These are streets, often deserted and strangled, where one sees officers directing traffic, and hands, holographic-type hands, rising from the sidewalk, in an unknown gesture where one wonders, with a hint of uncertainty, if they are pointing at a brigade of workers remodeling old buildings, or the ruins of a sleepless city erected behind your back, or if, on the contrary, they are hands that point to you, speak to you, screening you when you turned on Flagler Street, heading East, to ask for some change.

Note:

Vertiginously tall buildings characterize the Miami landscape, especially in photographs and when advertising to the world. Giants that appear to scratch the heavens began populating the city toward the end of the 1970s, at a time when Miami became infamous for its drug trade. Many would have you believe that this illicit business helped finance many of the first buildings on Brickell Avenue and Downtown Miami. Then again, that’s just hearsay… Today Miami is proud of its tall and futuristic buildings, many designed and built by some of the finest architects in the world.