To Po | Pavel Makov

"To Po" is the author's book of Pavel Makov, which began as a reflection on the futuristic hypothesis that in the coming decades, states will lose their defining role, giving way to big cities. The book was an attempt to combine (oppose or reconcile) two different views of the space in which we live.

On the one hand, the book contains a general plan of the large city "Do Po", divided into 64 equal plots, each of which is unique and does not repeat itself. On the other hand, these are the pages of a pocket notebook in which the author drew plans of real and imaginary cities with free development for several years.

In the book, the city districts and drawings from the notebook are printed in gravure printing, which have been converted into a vector image. They are located on different sides of the turn and are connected by common tracks. The reader, finding himself at a crossroads, finds himself in a borderland situation that defines the Place - the presence between reality and a dream. Thus, only selected pages from the author's personal notebook were included in the book, and the tab with the map of the fictional city "Do Po" became an integral part of this author's book.