Small Works 3: Invisible City, Calvino

rapid fire materials: marble (tile), plant, fabric (velvet), glass jar, plastic, foam, metal, dirt and bones.

rapid fire formal analysis: The broken marble tile with the plants growing out of it, shows decay and also new life growing out of it, the velvet fabric, shows wealth because velvet was a fancy fabric which not everyone could obtain, also velvet cushions also give the idea of maybe gatherings or social events, the glass bell with a column inside shows that they are protecting something, trying to preserve it. The bones and dirt show decay and death. 

contextual reference: In its centuries of decadence, emptied by plagues, the lack of maintenance men, the city slowly became populated again as the survivors emerged.

The days of poverty were followed by more joyous times.

The shards of the original splendor had been saved. They were now preserved under glass bells, locked in display cases.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body which its smells and its breath, shows off , like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

understanding the place through conveyance of mood: Through this pieces I can tell that this was a nice place, that had experienced some decay maybe war, maybe plague and  it was inhabited for a while, and it got destroyed until new life and new people came back to it. After people rebuilt the place they started to experience wealth again and happiness. While they also wanted to keep as reminder or as something precious something from the old place, a memento per say. But everything they had was destroyed, and it was a cycle of rebuilding this place again and again.