This post contains my research notes on the City Esmeralda as depicted by Italo Calvino as well as some preliminary drawings.
I'm trying to capture the grand scale of concrete and brick used in creating a city in this way, as much as i try to make it my own, venetian canals and roman aqueducts snuck into the back of my mind.
The nice thing about this city is the sense Calvino gives it of being part puzzle, part maze - a sort of 'always changing' space - I think some of your more abstract thumbnails begin to evoke this more kinetic element.
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