Utopia is a striking macro fine art photograph that reimagines towering green plant structures as skyscrapers symbolizing power, wealth, and vertical segregation in a divided world. Inspired by the social, political, and economic stratification of Coruscant from Star Wars, this piece offers a visually symbolic critique of modern income inequality and environmental degradation. In this imagined future, gleaming spires of green growth soar upward, representing the cities of the elite. Luxurious towers of glass and steel are suspended high above the suffering of those below. Within these upper echelons, the ultra-wealthy live in synthetic paradises, breathing purified air and basking in artificial light. Their skyborne utopia appears untouched by hardship—an illusion of perfection built on systemic exploitation. Beneath this green canopy lies a far different world. In stark contrast, the lower realms of the composition reflect desolation and decay. Cracked textures and darkened tones symbolize overcrowded slums, poisoned air, and lives mired in poverty. The waste of those above rains down upon the forsaken below, serving as a visual metaphor for environmental and economic oppression.
The image questions who truly pays the price for paradise. Through macro abstraction, Utopia blurs the lines between biology and urban design, highlighting how systems of inequality grow from and depend on the suffering they obscure. The green "skyscrapers" are no longer signs of sustainability or hope, but fragile illusions of power that teeter on the brink of collapse.
