Found street-posters from New York City and Los Angeles, sliced and woven.
74” x 50”
“In Maurillia the traveller is invited to visit the city and, and the same time, to examine some old postcards that show it as it used to be…
If the traveler does not wish to disappoint the inhabitants, he must praise the post card city and prefer it to the present one, though he must be careful to contain his regret at the changes within definite limits: admitting that the magnificence and prosperity of the metropolis Maurilia, when compared to the old, provincial Maurilia, cannot compensate for a certain lost grace…
Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow on another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another…”
—Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
Found street-posters from New York City and Los Angeles, sliced and woven.
74” x 50”
“In Maurillia the traveller is invited to visit the city and, and the same time, to examine some old postcards that show it as it used to be…
If the traveler does not wish to disappoint the inhabitants, he must praise the post card city and prefer it to the present one, though he must be careful to contain his regret at the changes within definite limits: admitting that the magnificence and prosperity of the metropolis Maurilia, when compared to the old, provincial Maurilia, cannot compensate for a certain lost grace…
Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow on another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another…”
—Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
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