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| TECLA, 2005, watercolor |
Invisible Cities : Italo Calvino
Who gets to Tecla, just see the city, behind the fences of boards, guards of sacking, scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden bridges suspended from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, pylons.
To the question - Why is the construction of Thecla continued for so long? - The inhabitants of hoisting buckets without ceasing, to fall plumb, to move up and down long brushes. - Why not start the destruction, - respond. And if you fear that required the scaffolding just taken the city begins to crumble and fall apart, they add hastily, in a whisper: - not just the city.
If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone applied his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes that pull other cranes, scaffoldings that have other racks, beams that prop up other beams. - What meaning does your construction? - Application. - What is the purpose of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following the project?
- We will show it as soon as the day, and now we can not stop, - answer.
Work stops at sunset. Night falls on the site. It's a starry night. - Here is the project - say
If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone applied his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes that pull other cranes, scaffoldings that have other racks, beams that prop up other beams. - What meaning does your construction? - Application. - What is the purpose of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following the project?
- We will show it as soon as the day, and now we can not stop, - answer.
Work stops at sunset. Night falls on the site. It's a starry night. - Here is the project - say
Colleen Corradi Brannigan
Of all passages in Calvino's Invisible Cities, Tecla is by far, my favorite one. I happened to discover italian artist, Colleen Corradi and her collection of watercolors, all of which attribute to a city/passage in this celebrated book. If you can read Italian, I highly recommend the original text!