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| « 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 […] » « When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass amongst them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their support remain. » « Spider-webs of intricate relationships seeking a form »  |
« In the center of Fedora, that gray stone metropolis, stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora. »
« […] every inhabitants visits it, chooses a city that corresponds to his desires, contemplates it, imagining his reflection in the medusa pond that would have collected the waters of the canal (if it had not been dried up), the view from the high canopied box along he avenue reserved for elephants (now banished from the city), the fun of sliding down the spiral, twisting minaret (which never found a pedestal from which to rise »
(I couldn't find what a medusa pond was so I just imagined this sort of fountain that would centralize water through its 'snakes-hair-pipes')
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« Isaura, city of thousands wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. »
« Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; […] »
« […] in the reservoirs perched on stilts over the roofs, in the slender arches of the aqueducts, in all columns of water, the plungers, the drains, all the way up to the weathercocks that surmount the airy scaffoldings of Isaura, a city that moves entirely upward. »
These are looking really good! Love 103, 106 and 109!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see more!!
Thanks Charlie! Trying my best with the time we have left!
Delete103 looks really cinematic - like a movie shot : )
ReplyDeleteI think in terms of ideas and experimentng page #11 needs a bit more work : )
Anyway, looking all good and promising! Well done!