**in an hypothetical reality in which the human being ceases to exists, 

machine will continue to drive cities forward

and if one of these looked at the sky...**

This illustration gets inspiration from the book "Il castello dei destini incrociati" 
(the castle of crossed destinies ), written by Italo Calvino.✍️

the story is about some travelers crossing the woods who take refuge in a castle in the middle of it. A great banquet is created by them and during the feast, they decide to use a deck of tarot cards to narrate their stories.🃏

The narrative text is accompanied, almost on every page, by reproductions of Tarot cards, in various combinations from which the writer creates various stories. It is therefore a work of combinatorial literature. Stories come from

"a finite number of elements whose combinations multiply to billions of billions."

(Italo Calvino)



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To create this collage i started with a magazine of "Galaxy" ant cut all the small fluo guys🕺🏻.
found a nice moon from a sci-fi poster🌝.
it was pretty hard to get the city and the robot with the right perspective but in the end, i found the right pieces from an Isaac Asimov collection of stories and a pretty old magazine of "Astounding science fiction".🤖

 

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Hope you enjoy this post, next one will have a mythological inspiration, a story that i really wanted to portray as collage. Stay tuned!