上週的創意思考課作業，是閱讀四段摘錄自伊塔羅卡爾維諾【看不見的城市】的章節，然後選一個城市，創作一個比喻此城市的視覺作品。
這幅畫是我根據"城市與記憶之四：左拉"這個章節所畫的。今天我們把作品帶到課堂上，然後讓同學猜每個人所表現的是哪一座城市。
This is the illustration I did for Creative Thinking class. We had to read four paragraphs of excerpt from Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino, then picked one city we like and make an imagery to
represent this city. I picked "Zora", based on this following excerpt,
which was translated from Italian.
Cities and Memory 4 - Zora
Beyond six rivers and three mountain ranges rises Zora, a city that no
one, having seen it, can forgot. But not because, like other memorable
cities, it leaves ab unusual image in your recollections. Zora has the
quality of remaining in your memory point by point, in its succession
of streets, of houses along the streets, and of doors and windows in
the houses, though nothing in them possesses a special beauty of
rarity. Zora's secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns
following one another as in a musical score where not a note can be
altered or displaced. The man who knows by heart how Zora is made, if
he is unable to sleep at night, can imagine he is walking along the
streets and he remembers the order by which the copper clock follows
the barber's striped awning, then the fountain with the nine jets, the
astronomer's glass tower, the melon vendor's kiosk, the statue of the
hermit and the lion, the Turkish bath, the cafe at the corner, the
alley that leads to the harbor. This city which cannot be expunged from
the mind is like an armature, a honeycomb in whose cells each of us can
place the things he wants to remember: names of famous men, virtues,
numbers, vegetable and mineral classifications, dates of battles,
constellations, parts of speech. Between each idea and each point of
the itinerary an affinity or a contrast can be established, serving as
an immediate aid to memory. So the world's most learned men are those
who have memorized Zora.
But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless
and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has
languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her.
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