You can learn more about the project from Puente’s official website here. Puente’s work is set to go on display in the San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on the 2nd February 2019.

The real, historical Marco Polo (12541324) was an Italian explorer who spent 17 years in. Italian author Italo Calvino (19231985) began his career as a writer of realistic. According to Puente, 'each illustration has a conceptual process, some of which take more time than others.' Usually 'I research, think, and ideate over each city for three weeks before making sketches.' The final drawings and cut-outs take around a week to produce. All About Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities' Italo Calvino’s Life and Work. Identifying such connections could lead to insightful thoughts about a particular text and. Invisible Cities, which imagines fictional conversations between the (real-life) Venetian explorer Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, has been instrumental in framing approaches to urban discourse and the form of the city. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a reconstruction of The Travels of Marco Polo, but despite the strong connections between the two texts, little attempts have been made to apply this intertextual relationship in a reading of Invisible Cities.

Her collection, which ArchDaily published in 2016, and again in 2017, consists of mixed media collages, drawn mainly using ink on paper, brings together a sequence of imagined places – each referencing a city imagined in the book. Lima-based architect Karina Puente has created a new series in her personal project: to illustrate each and every 'invisible' city from Italo Calvino's 1972 novel.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino