Scenes from the City pictures a city, bound in mystery. Is it a forgotten city, or one of Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”, just a fragment of the mind? The painting explores imagination by leaving many small details for the viewer to add. The perspective is deliberately chosen, leaving the city in the distance, so that the lines of its buildings are vague and barely discernible. The viewer has to finish the painting in his mind, making use of his own imagination.

The aggressive orange color is intensified to shades of red at the boundaries of the mysterious city, making it seem full of life and energy. The painting consists of three separate panels, with the two small side panels increasing the sense of remoteness of the subject. This adds depth and expands the canvas, as if its frame is not large enough to hold all its implications.

As a whole, Scenes from the City conveys the feeling of “healthy” mystery which makes your more curious and urges you to free your imagination and add the finishing strokes. This city is built by us, in the way we perceive it. Some people will make it modern and shiny, while others will use old red bricks covered with moss, to create an ancient city.