Month: July 2019

This image reminded me of something Franco Fontana might make, although I accept there might be too much texture in the wall face.

The image of a house with a shuttered door and window presents an overwhelming sense of “closed”, yet I find the colour scheme is appealing and there in lies a contradition.

Walking through the empty shell of a once-magnificent building — a Roman temple, an amphitheatre, etc. — the sense of what people did there lies in the distance. It is hard to connect to their emotional state, their beliefs and thoughts can only be imagined. This sarcophagus, however, gave a face to those things. The…

The monuments we visit provide us with a contextual sense of where people lived and may be what they did: pray, perform, watch, etc. But when looking at the bust of an individual, a more personal sense is communicated.

I find this image recursive. A tree, located in what was once the back-stage area of the Roman Theatre, among the remnants of roman columns whose design is based on that of a tree.