Layers of the City is an early exploration of the urban themes that would later become central to Vahagn Bagoyan’s artistic practice. Here, the city remains visibly architectural—façades, rooftops, windows, and building fragments stay recognizable—yet it is already being transformed into a dense system of lines, rhythms, and overlapping spatial layers. The composition unfolds as an expansive urban panorama. Buildings accumulate toward the horizon, gradually losing their individuality as they merge into the city's larger fabric. Across this field, an energetic network of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines disrupts conventional perspective and introduces another spatial order — one based on movement, connection, and visual tension. Touches of blue, yellow, green, pink, and red move through the predominantly pale composition like signals within an urban network. Some lines appear structural, others spontaneous, anticipating the increasingly abstract trajectories that would later become a defining element of Bagoyan’s visual language. The work captures the city at a transitional point between representation and abstraction. Architecture remains tangible, but the artist’s attention already shifts away from individual buildings toward the relationships between them—density, circulation, expansion, and the accumulation of urban experience. In Layers of the City, the metropolis begins to reveal itself not as a collection of buildings, but as a layered organism whose visible architecture is only one part of a much more complex system of movement and connection.