This illustration was born for the Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams. It narrates the story of St Mark’s Square and Other Polygons (humans), captured in an instance of encounter. Drawing its inspiration from Edwin Abbott’s Flatland (1884), St Mark’s Square and Other Polygons wants to comment on the endless possibilities of transformation by examining and celebrating different spatial dimensions. This instant is largely two-dimensional, including hints of a third dimension in the shadows and lights of the Other Polygons, or the reflection of the Sky on the Square. 

Such an oddly dimensioned illustration is inhabited by several different polygons, geometric figures representing a separate and ever-changing definition of human, which we always try to define despite its complexity and fluidity. The Square and Other Polygons are illustrated in a moment of encounter, awe, relaxation, disappointment, exploration, passion, incomprehension, travel, togetherness, restoration etc. St Mark not only becomes the emblem of the moments we missed during the last two years of the pandemic but it represents the constant values that will always be with us during life’s constant transformation.