One of my favorite books of all time is a slim masterpiece by Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities. In this book, the aged Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Tartars, listens as Marco Polo describes the cities he has visited in his wide travels through the empire. The cities are very strange, their descriptions are prose poetry, and they have names that sound like the names of women: Zenobia, Eutropia, Beersheba, Isaura...
The clouds are from a photograph by Rebecca Resinski. The quotation is from Invisible Cities, translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
I'd love to visit a city like this. Lovely work Fi.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the book nor the writer Fi, but this seems to be a happy handmade city. Looks like a book to read, love your collage and the phrase.
ReplyDeleteThis is nearly an illustration for this book, Fi. I like your collage - and it looks so 3D.
ReplyDeleteDreaming spires indeed! Excellent!
ReplyDeleteInteresting...all of it...image, story, etc. Great piece Fi.
ReplyDeleteAll the cockeyed towers are just right, Fi, a worthy interpretation of Calvino!
ReplyDelete