MQL I

Someone decided to map one particular city and then map many others. Why? To better understand them, to better understand himself, to better understand the relationship between the city* and himself. This someone is young and arrives for the first time in Mildura from the other side of the world, to map this city, accidentally conceived in a utopian dream of the last century. The current structure of the city is freely available to the citizenry, but through this particular mapping process, the newcomer somebody tries to unveil a little secret that he believes every city possesses. Once he discovers this unique secret, he believes it can explain the essential and unrepeatable qualities of the city itself: the reason for its existence, its ancient origins, its future ambitions, even its latent darkness. One of the reasons why this young man has travelled to Mildura is to meet a much older person, who for a long time, has believed and imagined the same things about cities and their relationship with what lies above and below them.

Ink on paper