“Tapestry of Space: Domestic Architecture and Underground Communities in Margaret Morton’s Photography of a Forgotten New York,” written by Nersessova, Irina; is a critique and analysis on the book “The tunnel” by Margaret Morton. The article uses The SI or Situationalist international theory and applies that to how someone’s home has a physiological effect on them. The article also compares the homeless with people that have houses and shows how in the big picture, both persons are in the same position.

Mortons photographs on new York and the tunnel shows many homeless people that were battling extreme poverty. The tunnel was underground and showed many homeless people with makeshift houses that they considered shelter and home. It showed New York without all the beauty and all the spectacles. Her objective was to capture people’s lives that live in these situations through recorded interviews, pictures, and many records of what she saw.

The situationalist international theory explains how we get a lot of thrill, enjoyment, and thoughts from the images we see. This means that living in New York people will never be able to get away from those feelings due to the fact that it’s filled with many images that make you believe what they want you to believe. In the article, Bernard goes with this and tries to achieve a mental consciousness that isn’t affected by the images he sees. Furthermore, this drives him to the tunnel where he meets and Bob and is told that this is where he needs to be if he wants to find himself. (30) The article begins to state how a “connection to the environment is conducive to human agency,” (30) and also states how homelessness can have a physiological effect on someone and they can be consumed in the position or physiological state that they are in.

Underground life is a lot different than above ground. The homeless that is, underground feel different when it comes to their security and their safety. Many homeless people are stating that they feel safer underground than in the homeless shelters because there is no violence underground due to the fact that people aren’t venturing into the unknown. Seeking refuge and peace underground is what many of them did. The psychological effect is that they are going to try and build underground what they couldn’t above ground. A life, a home, and happiness is all in their grasp because they were able to take themselves out of the spectacle and the above ground at which they failed to live a prosperous life.

The City has an effect on who lives in it. The images the city gives off can be an artificial happiness, so in turn, Morton doesn’t glamorize the city in no photographs. In the article it explains how the city is more like a business and everyone in the city is looking for a false happiness and to make a profit. By building bigger businesses, bringing wealthier people in, and kicking lower income people out; the city has become a rotation that has no positive effects in it. (35) The articles main focus was to show that everywhere you live, what you see, and where you go all have a psychological effect on you.