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Two artworks concerning exile and New York, world city and archipelago: Walden by Jonas Mekas (1969) with reference to Henri David Thoreau (1854); and A Necessary Music by Beatrice Gibson (2009) according to The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940). Are these artworks a recreation by the separation achieved by the desert island as described and conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze? But here, the desert island is also a new world, the possible space to new human being, to humans who are inventing themselves by the geographical distance from the Ancients, from Europe and Africa: America.