Dear ArtStyle: Venice Dreams
Dear ArtStyle,
I have returned from Italy without sending you a postcard as I had hoped.
I plowed through the Venice Biennale for two days, spent a week in Florence, and ended up driving around in Tuscany. I was simply too over stimulated — taking in art, old and new, by the urban and natural environment, by the way of life, the food, the people — to sit down and focus on one thing.
It is Thanksgiving weekend, and I thought I would send something that would be easily digested.
I have picked out what have become my favorite images from the trip: the clotheslines of Venice. My dream is to import this custom to Chicago!
Anna
All images provided courtesy of Anna Joelsdottir.
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Great images. They remind me of what I saw in Italy in l984. The variety and creativity of hanging styles, repetitions on a theme, the sense of place, architecture, space, gesture, color, form, texture, light, etc. is really great. I had the joy of seeing Kandinsky’s painting of laundry at the Lembach House in Munich during that same trip.
I occasionally hang laundry in my yard but have been scolded by our neighbor who insisted that it was against our corporation rules and offered the use of her dryer if mine was broken! I still hang things out occasionally on the fence or the evergreens as I have not been arrested yet! Tina
In just about every country except the United States, you find clothes hung outside. It always reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom hung all the clothes out. I think you can actually smell the sun in them, something you don’t get in the dryer.
When I take pictures I like to have a theme of pictures along with the “must take shots”. These are wonderful. You will always remember the little things about this trip. Thanks for sharing.
Georgia