In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past… Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities #Cities #Me

Once your eye has guided your pen along the edge of a building or has examined how the sunlight reveals the detail of an Ionic capital, you have experienced the place and it becomes a part of you. #Drawing #Seeing #Experience #Place