Nobson Newtown
August 13, 2008
This is Paul Noble’s drawing of Nobson Newtown, a fictional city created by three dimensional letters (Nobfont): is a meticulous piece of work which took 8 years to make. I can not read the text, but the ruins and the spatial configuration of this city have a dreamlike quality that is captures my attention and speaks to me loudly. It is the idea of this city serving as self portrait that I find most fascinating: buildings in dreams are supposed to be symbols of ourselves – minds and bodies-. It is amazing to see this idea developed in an ‘urban scale’, the details of the city erroded by time, ancient and deserted after a bombing.
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