“Invisible Cities” is more about the emotional response to places than it is about travel itself, said Lin. Included in the show at the building’s Concourse Gallery are photographs, paintings, drawings, miniature sculptures, and five films running in a continuous loop. It was co-curated by Nancy Lin ’11 and Anne Sawyier ’12, both history of art and architecture concentrators. The show runs through April 20 at the Center for Government and International Studies, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. The strange power of cities, real and imagined, is the theme of “Invisible Cities,” where a visitor will find Starling’s “The Book of Found Objects,” along with the work of 14 other Harvard students.

The images and entries resonate with a strange power and read like a poem of consumer culture: belt buckle, hoop earring, Ph paper, hair piece, flattened fork, bent spoon, fragment of licorice rope, cell phone antenna. He recorded what he found and where (including an Old Thompson whiskey bottle, from in front of the Memorial Church, that was empty.)įor a new show of student art, “Invisible Cities,” Starling took images of three months of objects and arranged them chronologically in a tiny diary. Starling began collecting found objects in Cambridge and Boston, and on sojourns to Mississippi and New Orleans. The experience also gave the anthropology concentrator a theme that has lasted four years. He found the answer under his bed - in bits of trash, paper, and random materials. During his freshman year at Harvard, Christian Starling ’10 had a panicky moment.

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