This body of work draws inspiration from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Anastasia

stoneware 26w x 18d x 30h

“…when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires awaken all at once and surround you. … you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.”

Dorothea

Stoneware 23w x 23d x 23h

“I arrived here in my first youth… Before then I had known only the desert and the caravan routes… but now I know this path is only one of the many that opened before me on that morning in Dorothea.”

Berenice

Stoneware 24w x 25d x 26h

“… the real Berenice is a temporal succession of different cities, alternately just and unjust…all the future Berenices are already present in this instant, wrapped one within the other, confined, crammed, inextricable.”

Zaira

stoneware 36w x 21d x 18h

“A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”

Penthesilia

Stoneware 38w x 24d x 21h

“…outside Penthesilia does an outside exist? Or, no matter how far you go from the city, will you only pass from one limbo to another, never managing to leave it?”

Zenobia

Stoneware 22w x 20d x 28h

“…it is pointless trying to decide whether Zenobia is to be classified among happy cities or among the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it.”

Raissa

Stoneware 28w x 26d x 26h

“Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence.”

Zaira & Berenice

Eudoxia (Nestle IV)

Stoneware 38h x 29w x 25d

“…the true map of the universe is Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness.”