2021
physical

Invisible Cities: Aglaura

“Invisible Cities” was the final project for Graduate Form I, which I completed as part of RISD’s 3-year MFA in Graphic Design. Tom Wedell taught the course during the Fall 2021 semester. The project required us to create a paper sculpture inspired by an assigned passage from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Additionally, we had to model and 3D print a companion piece to our sculpture.

My passage described the fictional city of Aglaura: “So if I wished to describe Aglaura to you, sticking to what I personally saw and experienced, I should have to tell you that it is a colorless city, without character, planted there at random. But this would not be true, either: at certain hours, in certain places along the street, you see opening before you the hint of something unmistakable, rare, perhaps magnificent; you would like to say what it is, but everything previously said of Aglaura imprisons your words and obliges you to repeat rather than say.”