INVISIBLE CITIES

"Why do you come to Trude? You can resume your flight whenever you like, but you will arrive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude, which does not begin and does not end. Only the name of the airport changes."
-- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Mahjong is a kind of Chinese tradition. Each Mahjong has an identical shape, while might have different pattern on it. The Illustration uses Mahjong to refer building blocks in modern cities, implying the homogenization of global cities.

"In my mind I have many cities that I have never seen and will never see. Their names are linked to an image, or to a fragment of an imagined image. The high city on the bay is still there, in the middle of its central square the well is still there, but I can no longer recall its name, nor can I understand how I could ever have given it a name that is completely wrong in meaning."
-- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Information from kinds of electronic devices has becoming a new way to experience the city, with which people are able to imagine abstract cities in their mind.

Human Beings experienced a city through walking throught it, which was the case for hundreds of years. Heavier utilization of electronic devices in every aspects of our daily is a inreversible trend of 21st Century, the experience of the city shift its way as well. By watching videos, pictures, and reading articles of a city, people gain experience of it. However, that is not the real city, but an abstract cities constructed in the digital world.