Welcome to the real imaginary
The City of Galvez
Oscar Guzmán“The images of the City of Galvez constitute a document of a place that exists at some level of Reality. Galvez, with its famous Floating Cupolas, its capricious architecture and its advanced methods of urban transport, constitutes a peculiar document: Despite having characteristics of a photographic record, the images of Galvez don’t have and never have had a counterpart in the physical world.
The photographic document is a record that remits us to a point in space and time, that is, it’s an index. Therefore, the index of Galvez remits us to the reality of imagination. In this way, Galvez acquires its right to be considered a document of Reality, making it evident the impossibility to create frontiers between the real and the imaginary.”
– this gorgeous slideshow found at wood s lot
April 20th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Better than Calvino! The Statement is also a superb challenge - the Imagined is Real! Virtually always.