The theme of our art show was “Viaggio” (voyage), so all of the pieces are about some form of travel.

The photos below are of a fun project by Federico and Mirco of Urban Gap. They projected an animated continuous loop of train cars on a wall and set up a stand with a special keyboard and camera. We typed our names and looked into a monitor (positioning our faces inside the outline of a head). The camera started recording our facial expressions for four seconds, randomly attired us in the customary garb of a country and then added us to the train loop. As more people came to the show, more people hopped on the train - it really captured the spirit of the whole event.

Here’s Steve dressed as … a Statunitense, circa anni ‘80!

Hola!

To see details of Steve’s M, go to his portfolio.

One of my polaroids for the Luogo/Non Luogo project (place/non place).

The top two photos became postcards - the radiator is in our salonetta and the Roman columns are part of the base of the Portoni Borsari (near our apartment).

Steve’s “Luogo/Non Luogo” polaroid.

This piece is for a project in conjunction with the Centro Studi Immigrazioni, called “Nella mia città nessuno è straniero.” (In my city, no one is a foreigner). Cestim is a pro-immigrant organization that assists stranieri with their documents and tries to fight racism in the public schools, newspapers, etc etc.

Each artist illustrated a quote based on the theme of tolerance. Here’s mine:
La forza di una lingua non consiste nel respingere ciò che è straniero, ma nell’assimilarlo.

The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign, but assimilating it.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deb & Jeff rented a villa in Toscana for week. I hope they know we’re crashing with them.

A lawn!

Steve brought his coloring book.

Deb and the boys.

Arden.

Asher.

La famiglia Grosfeld.

View of the house from town.

View of the town from the house.

At the stazione.