Every city is a woman like you, like me, like us.

This collection is inspired by the beautiful novel Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino. With this series of portraits, I intend to explore the idea of cities represented by the female figure in its multiplicity of beings. It is the confluence of my own creative concerns turned into images.

Invisible Cities

Thin Cities 1

Isaura, city of the thousand wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. (...) and no farther. Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping wave enclosed beneath the rock"s calcareous sky. 
Consequently two forms of religion exist in Isaura. The city"s gods, according to some people, live in the depths, in the black lake that feeds the underground streams. According to others, the gods live in the buckets that rise, suspended from a cable, as they appear over the edge of the wells, in the revolving pulleys, in the windlasses of the norias, in the pump handles.(...). in the slender arches of the aqueducts, in all the columns of water, the vertical pipes, the plungers, the drains, all the way up to the weathercocks that surmount the airy scaffoldings of Isaura, a city that moves entirely upward. (Calvino, 1974, p. 20)