We have grown so accustomed to peering at the sky through a "spiderweb" of telecommunication cables. Over time, this chaos has evolved into a visual habit and an inescapable texture of our daily landscape.
Spanning 15 years (2010–2025), this photo series captures an entity that is both technical infrastructure and a signature "motif" of contemporary Vietnamese life.
A utility pole here functions like an archaeological site of varying cultural layers. On a single mast, one sees the symbiosis of legacy copper wires from the landline era and the cold fiber-optic cores of the digital age. The thicker and tighter these bundles grow, the more they testify to an insatiable thirst for connectivity.
However, from a urban planning perspective, this "persistence" remains an aesthetic and safety headache. Much like the endless cycle of "digging up and repaving" our roads, these overhead junctions betray a patchwork approach to planning. They reveal a sense of helplessness where the demand for growth consistently outpaces the capacity for underground integration.
