Brooklyn-based artist Ekene Ijeoma newest piece shows what parts of New York City are affordable to different people across the spectrum of salaries in the form of crystalline islands called "wage islands."
"I’m curious about, as people move to large cities, how can we keep these cities diverse — socially, economically, and culturally?" Ijeoma said. "That may come with people that are earning low wages and people that are earning high wages, but what’s the balance? It doesn’t just have to be about housing inequality — for me it scales up to keeping the city diverse."
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