This project takes its inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and in particular from Isadora, a city shaped by desire and memory. In Calvino’s story, travelers reach Isadora believing they will find the place of their dreams, only to discover that what they sought has already dissolved into time.

This work consists of original photos of Philadelphia, found images, and real objects. They form imagined geographies, cities that do not exist but feel both real and imagined. Each composition suggests a landscape glimpsed in memory or dreamed into being, where the familiar streets of a real city blur into something unnameable.

Through layering, juxtaposition, and scale, I seek to evoke how cities are not only built of brick and concrete but also of human passions, desires, and imagination.