| In
order to give some focus to my daily wanderings during a recent six month
residency
in Venice, I decided to do a photo essay on some aspect of Venetian culture
beyond the Venetian cliché. In the colorful laundry that one finds
hanging everywhere away from the main tourist thoroughfares, I was attracted
to juxtapositions of the colorful spontaneity of these lines of wash
against the underlying details of historic Venice. As I visited some
of the same locations over and over again I realized that the constantly
changing laundry itself provided a visual imagery as rich and varied
as the architecture from which it was hung. Hopefully the wide range
of images reveals something of the richness and variety of this aspect
of Venetian life. (Click on thumbnail image to see enlargement
and title of work) |
