Looking at Cities...

After reading Invisible Cities, I began to think about how a person sees a city. I immediately thought of this video I had seen last year in one of my art classes. It may seem odd that I made a connection between the two seemingly very different things, but I found a strange and maybe useless conclusion in my mind. Both the novel and the video show how people can see a city with perfect accuracy only when they look at it from different angles. In the video, we see a man with a very unique ability to recreate a city exactly how it is, with every detail shown perfectly. To do so, he needed to take a helicopter ride, seeing each building and street from many different angles and heights. In the novel, we see this when Marco Polo describes the cities with the exact count of chimneys or miniscule details such as that. He shows us how looking from different angles, we can see things we would have never noticed before. We realize this when he tells us all the"cities" he described are all really one city. I found both of these to be very intriguing and enjoyed finding a connection between the two!!