18 Monday Sep 2017
“This is too difficult,” for sure.
The line is from Dorina’s opening
Aria. But a comic opera is, by far,
The easier puzzle and the most fun.
Far more evident the tomfoolery
When opera is the satiric object.
Ego and artifice, with baffoonery
And romance, all add to the effect.
17 Sunday Sep 2017
17 Sunday Sep 2017
Yet again, as I learn in Wikipedia, just how little did I know:
Décollage, in art, is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image.[1] The French word “décollage” translates into English literally as “take-off” or “to become unglued” or “to become unstuck”. Examples of Décollage include etrécissements and cut-up technique. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.
17 Sunday Sep 2017
Lots of places are closed on Sunday.
But neither restaurants nor churches,
Two obvious sites of Italian worship,
Need justify their rights to a stay.
So unlike the last day in the spring,
When all I could do was take a photo
Of a photo, we enter Giovanni e Paolo
And devote ourselves to the coloring.
15 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in Art
Rebecca’s eye + Her superior iPhone = The best optic of the gathering gloom
14 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted in Art
Don Matteo, an Italian TV series, is presently being shot on location in Spoleto.
As the middle distance shot reveals, we missed our chance one day to be extras.
11 Monday Sep 2017
Posted in Art
Too far off for a shot of the fisherman with his nets;
Focus a few quick takes on the women with their lace.
11 Monday Sep 2017
Posted in Art
A dissonance of sorts between the island and the sculpture, both Italian:
09 Saturday Sep 2017
Shot thru the iPhone lens, across the aisle,
Thru the double glass with the thick shade
Partially drawn on the Trenitalia fast train,
The wide green Adriatic Sea is hard to see.
Once all the variables are almost aligned,
The frame has reset and the marvel adjusts.
Lo & behold, a broad expanse of green water
As it fades into rolling clouds on the horizon.
07 Thursday Sep 2017
Round about midnight, I might figure out a way to make this equation work.
