Tuesday, 25 March 2014

homage to italo calvino


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.

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6 comments:

  1. Crafty Dogma25 March 2014 at 12:42

    I'd love to visit a city like this. Lovely work Fi.

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  2. Josephine25 March 2014 at 15:03

    I 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.

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  3. Sabine25 March 2014 at 23:20

    This is nearly an illustration for this book, Fi. I like your collage - and it looks so 3D.

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  4. Wastedpapiers26 March 2014 at 08:43

    Dreaming spires indeed! Excellent!

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  5. Collage Craft26 March 2014 at 18:09

    Interesting...all of it...image, story, etc. Great piece Fi.

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  6. paperworker27 March 2014 at 22:36

    All the cockeyed towers are just right, Fi, a worthy interpretation of Calvino!

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