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Fast sketches were also drawn, although to lift the camera to the eye is much easier... There was barely enough time to sketch the girl, the shape of her thighs and the movement and balance of her body as she was smoothly bending for a few seconds before she disappeared across the Gran Canal. Hardly more than a minute had passed. Marks were hurriedly left on the rugged paper, mere shadows of the proud fluidity of her movements. She had disembarked from the Udine train, her feet gliding over the ample steps. Wandering on a thin strip of land, the basilica of Santa Maria della Salute welcoming the basin of San Marco, a narrow alleyway suddenly expanding, a tree marking its presence: Campiello Barbaro. The anfiteatro at Lucca: the charcoal stick quickly applied to the paper, a young Italian girl and an Australian architect peering over my shoulder, the long gone voices of the Romans still whispering in its curving walls. Dorothea and Caroline, two German teenage schoolgirls, decided to look over my shoulder rather than being seduced by young Italian street portrait painters on the steps of Fontana di Trevi, the same sweet phrases being repeated over and over again, what a bore! Wine tasting followed, as they bought Italian wine to take home, it had to be different from that produced in Southern Germany, the land they went back after giving me a peek on the cheek. Comment »
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