Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
Maggie Miller:
"The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities,
by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s
book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan as Marco Polo reports on
the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights that arise from
interactions each place. A
fourteen odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found
prints, my work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities, participating in the
conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the
relationship between self and setting.
The viewer is given a chance to engage with a city fully assembled,
stretching out as an accordion of compiled images and quotations. Closed, pop-ups retreat back into blank
pages, just as Calvino’s cities themselves are in essence bare canvases. Prints draw on the discussions of the
limitations of language in establishing a common vernacular of experience. "
Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 12- April 26, 2012
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