Last Day Exhibit

Wow...what an amazing ride. Time already to pack up--did it fly by for you, too? Parsons had eight classes (all but ours were four weeks long) end today, and celebrated with an exhibit of final projects for all to to see...our assignment (given yesterday morning) combined these two concepts:

"...with cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream...conceals a desire, or its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspective deceitful, and everything conceals something else."
--excerpt: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, 1972

"Every map is a cultural construction...to convey meaning. Each map captures the world view of its maker, and allows us to ask how that point of view imbeds itself in the map, as the mapmaker decides how to render...an idea into a simplified model of a complex reality."--Salin, 2006

So, if you've already connected the dots--we were asked to re-invent Paris, by means of creating a map with a methodology of our choice, based on our analysis of the city. These were tied for my faves:

Sherry's, facing ground (she's in fashion)

Sherry's, facing ceiling

Katy's is so richly textured, and folds into itself to a quarter of the size shown. She lives on Jersey, an island on the body of water seperating France & England...and she's up there with Rachel in being one of the most outrageoulsy funny people I've known.

Sandra teaches at the Smithsonian.