I chose a quote from the book “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. The book follows a conversation between traveler Marco Polo and emperor Kublai Khan. Khan asks Marco to tells him stories about the cities in his empire. Macro describes several cities, speaking about them in terms of memory, desires, signs and scale. (Spoiler alert) In the end you realize Marco is describing just one city from different perspectives and we understand the true complexity of place and memory.
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspective deceitful, and everything conceals something else” (pg.44)
I like the idea of changing perspective, and concealing systems and tried to bring these ideas into my circuit.