Invisible Cities | Human Relations
Over the past few days I have been reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and Twyla Tharp’s, The Creative Habit. In addition to my standard 40 hour work week at the office, I have begun making a habit of creating a piece of “art” (if you will)… The exercise should only last about 30 minutes, and it is generally inspired by my choice of book or article. I intended on posting my first quick creative exercise a few nights ago, however, sleep won the battle.
Ironically enough, I came across a TED talk given by Kate Hartman on human communication which immediately led me back to the 30 minute doo dah I constructed a night ago. The sentence from Calvino’s, Invisible Cities reads, “All these beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities.” A vague sentence, but one that struck me as intensely true.
Being actively involved in communication, human and technological, most of us are introduced to countless images that desensitize us from fully experiencing something new. Well, Kate Hartman touches on this a bit in her ability to dissect our common forms of communication and cleverly attach wearable devices to mediate and provide for a totally unconventional and new form of communication with the self, other humans, and the natural world around us. Give it a watch. It will be worth 10 minutes of your day.
