Design By Miss Ray

In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the city’s“alabaster gates… have villas where the shadows of dancing girls with silvery scales swim beneath the medusa shaped chandeliers” Calvino’s Moriana has another side, a hidden face ‘with an expanse of rusting planks of rusting sheet metal pipes black with soot” For Calvino, both sides belong to each other, coexisting, “ like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side…”

"FROM ONE PART TO THE OTHER, THE CITY SEEMS TO CONTINUE, IN PERSPECTIVE, MULTIPLYING ITS REPERTORY OF IMAGES... "

"De Chirico's city has been one of the capitals of the modernist imagination. It is a fantasy town, a state of mind, signifying alienation, dreaming and loss. Its elements are so well known by now that they fall into place as soon as they are named, like jigsaw pieces worn by being assembled over and over again: the arcades, the tower, the piazza, the shadows, the statue, the train, the mannequin."

FILM/FELLINI, 8 1/2

"I have chosen to live in a place where the past is all around me. In Rome, we say, “I’ll meet you at the Pantheon for ice cream” or “We’ll take the shortcut at the Coliseum.” I live in a place where the past is all around us, the ancient past. When you walk around Rome, you cannot help but be affected by the monuments, the ancient walls and ruins of the past." -I, Fellini Pg. 297