The city is a visual feast, with one of the most fundamental parts of this feast being the people themselves. Humanity itself is beautiful, and its interaction with the city fascinating. There is a diversity in dress and style, and all people add to a mosaic that would be incomplete without their contribution to the whole.
Art adds to a space’s beauty, and it thrives in cities in a variety of venues. Those living in or visiting a city are privy not only to art in museums and exhibits, but also to the variety of street art found in cities. Oftentimes, artists will create landscapes or portraits for a small cost. Even the subways of cities are filled with art. Intricate and colorful collages, like the mosaic below, can be found in city subways.
Cities are luminescent and are made beautiful by the light which emanates from a variety spaces found within, including billboards, store fronts, street lamps, and shimmering water. The prevalence of piercing light was present in every city, which I’ve ever visited. Istanbul is a great example of a city bathed in light. No matter where I went in Istanbul, whether it was the bazars, churches or mosques, light surrounded me at every turn.
Walk into a city, and you will be overwhelmed by the beauty found within, so much so that you’ll never truly forget a city once you visit it. A city will imprint itself permanently into the constellations of your mind and will become forever available for recall in all its splendor and magnificence.
Ayesha F. Hamid is a poet and creative nonfiction writer published in Blue Bonnet Review, Philly Flash Inferno, Sheepshead Review, and Rathalla Review. Her full-length memoir The Borderland Between Worlds is available through Auctus Publishers at Barnes and Nobles and Amazon. Ayesha also has a full-length poetry collection called Waiting for Resurrection. She is a Poetry Editor at Ran Off With the Star Bassoon and an Assistant Poetry Editor for The Night Heron Barks. She is the Editor-in-Chief at The City Key.
Ayesha holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and A Bachelors of Science in Sociology from Chestnut Hill College, M.F.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in Publishing from Rosemont College. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Brooklyn College. Aside from writing, Ayesha also loves film, travel, and photography. You can find Ayesha on twitter @ahamidwriter
Ayesha is a lover of cities, big and small.
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