Venices

Red Rose and Flamingo

Magazine cuttings and tissue wrapping paper on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

The Venices Project reinterprets the literary and mathematical ideas embodied in Italo Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities (1972). The series’ sixty-five collages comprise imaginary cities of my own invention, organized into conceptual and emotional artworks, each with its own hidden reference to ‘Venice’, the metaphor for humanity. 

I have included several pieces here; the entire series is intended to be published as its own book.

City of Stars

Magazine cuttings, 19th Cent. engravings, art and antique postcards, antique celestial map fragment on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Compass

Magazine and photo print cuttings, handmade and wrapping papers, art print and postcard on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2020)

Mysterious City

Magazine cuttings on c.1900 Viennese colored lithograph (Gerlach’s Allegorien ‘Verhangnis’ No. 118), 19th Cent. architectural engraving, handmade paper, ink and acrylic on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Red Venice

Magazine cuttings, photograph, early 20th Cent Map of Venice, handmade paper on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Blue Venice

Magazine cuttings, antique postcards, early 20th Cent. Map of Venice, handmade paper on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Green Venice

Magazine cutting, antique postcards, early 20th Cent. Map of Venice on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Pink Venice

Magazine and postcard cuttings, 19th Cent. engraving, early 20th Cent. Map of Venice on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

City of Jewels

Magazine cuttings, photographs and 19th Cent. map fragments on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

City of Bridges

Magazine cuttings and 19th Cent. engraving cutting on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

City of Liquid Gold

Antique postcard, 19th Cent. architectural engraving, magazine cutting, gold and ivory handmade marbleized paper and 1930s La Parisienne magazine cutting on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Odalisque

Art postcard, 19th Cent. architectural engraving and handprinted flocked paper on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2023)

Brooklyn

Antique architectural magazine and art print cuttings on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Twisted City

Magazine cuttings, photoprint and pencil on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2022)

Spinning City

Magazine cuttings, postcard, handmade paper, photo prints on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2024)

Merry Widow

2000s and 1950s fashion advertisements on Bristol Board. 19”x 24” (2024)