[poetry of architectural disillusionment]

The city of Pirra (one of Calvino’s many incredible invisible cities), while merely imagined (and not yet visited by the traveler), inhabits a limbo; it is an incorporeal reflection.

In the dynamics of the city of Pirra, the glass grid represents the name “Pirra” or the mental blueprint: a clean, geometric, and predictable structure (the “towers and wide windows” Marco Polo imagined). The distorted reflections, meanwhile, represent the chaotic physical reality that dissolves the rigidity of our imagination. The real world “warps” the straight lines we create in our minds.

My Pirra exists only in a spectral state: it is there, yet intangible.
It exists solely as an image reflected on the glass surface, just as expectations exist only on the surface of our minds.