Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities - Chosen Text for Visual Exploration

I am really pleased with my choice in text and Invisible Cities has so much description and imagination throughout, I think i would like to respond to some of the cities as described by Calvino, giving my interpretation of the text and hopefully bring his vision and storytelling to life in some way. I am not sure how yet, but would like to try and progress in some direction at least, and feel the cities themselves speak so much about the many layers, meanings and motifs beneath the text, that creating visual about the cities themselves would be a great way to approach this brief.

When reading through my chosen text, I thought it would be useful for me to go through the text meticulously and select some of the cities that appeal to me the most and what cities i think will be most visually rich in order to work from throughout this module. There are so many cities described in this novel (over 50), therefore narrowing down the cities to work from would be key in progressing further in my development and organisation.

Final Chosen Cities:
beginning to think about the final work I need to produce for this module, i am considering creating a set of 3 prints in some way. I have been thinking about doing a printed concertina book that includes many of the cities with my chosen novel, but sometimes less is more and if i was to attempt a larger publication with many images of cities, something may be lost in terms of impact and it could maybe take away from the amazing imagery I am getting whilst reading this story and trying to recreate/interpret. I think a set of 3 large prints would be strong visually and add intrigue as to what the 3 "cities" are about. I will also have more freedom to explore the motifs within the story and apply them to my compositions in a way that harbours a lot of detail and craft.

With this in mind I have managed to chose my 3 cities, after a lot of deliberation. They are:

Octavia

Baucis

Despina

I also really like Zora and this will be my back up should I struggle for some reason to visually respond to one of my 3 chosen cities above. Also (planning ahead) if I get the chance and have the time i may be able to create a 4th print and this would be the contender for that.