Tramming in Napoli, Italy
Napoli, Italy These days are sweet. I wake up to the transcendent drones of Nam myoho renge kyo filtering up the spiral staircase from the downstairs living room. I walk down to the kitchen and my host joins me for coffee and biscuits when she is done chanting. We try to understand each other with hand […]
Pt 1 – Niki De St Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Tuscany
We are on the road to Tuscany to see the long awaited Tarot Garden of Niki de St. Phalle. It’s only when we are about halfway there that we check the website for hours and prices and we discover that the place closed for the winter over a month ago. WHAT?! Oh NoNoNoNONONONONOOOO! Wide eyes, […]
Napoli. My first impressions
In the blue shadow of a old church I sit on a stone bench in the Center of Napoli eating my first slice of Italian pizza. They call it Portafoglio, which translates to “wallet” pizza because the crust is very thin and they fold it in half to eat it. This one came from “The […]
The Venice Biennale
Now in its 55th year, the Venice Biennale is made up of avant garde art from all over the world. With that said, understandably, the art was all over the place. I loved some of it and then some of the other art, as art can be good at doing, was perplexing and its aggravating in its own […]
The Enchantments of Venice
Wake up! Venice is in front of us! With a jolt of excitement I spring up from the back seat of the car. We have just driven four hours from Vienna to Italy. It is night and I can see the lights of Venice shimmering in orange and white on the water ahead. I am delighted […]
Vienna, the last days
My last days in Vienna were filled with exploration and coffee. Perola and I walked everywhere marveling at the architecture, impressive statues and ornate churches. The symbol of the double headed eagle of the former Habsburg Monarchy are omnipresent throughout the city. We drank a hundred coffees and ate many savory Viennese meals and delicious cakes and […]
The colorful back streets of Vienna
Vienna and the hunt for magical doors continues… Perola and I wander down another hundred streets in search of portal locations for our next interactive public art installation which will take place here in Vienna next fall. We weave through the 1st district, through grand courtyards, down mysterious corridors, into back alleyways… And still there […]