Invisible Cities (Ersilia)

$14,000.00

Found street-posters from New York City and Mexico City, sliced and woven.

72” x 50.5”

“In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.”

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Found street-posters from New York City and Mexico City, sliced and woven.

72” x 50.5”

“In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.”

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino