| The structure of cities and the structure of the mind are conflated in these eight new paper constructions. Plans of ancient ruins and contemporary city grids are layered and edited. The process of repeating, adding, and subtracting invokes memory and absence. Shadows as well as vocabulary of structures — nets, spirals, ladders, boats, spider webs — are integral to these constructions.
The title Invisible Cities refers to Italo Calvino's monumental tales of the same name. In Invisible Cities Marco Polo tells Emperor Kublai Khan stories about his travels to many cities. The cities turn out to be just one densely layered city seen from many angles. This one city may exist only in the mind.
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