Empty Chairs in St Mark Square in Venice
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Empty Chairs in St Mark Square in Venice

Empty Chairs in St Mark Square: I was intrigued by vacant spaces – spaces that I certainly had not seen without hordes of people. The strongest presence in these images was what was absent from them.

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TRIPTYCH and more at the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
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TRIPTYCH and more at the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.

Bridge of Sighs in Venice evokes feelings of anguish and hopes of escape. I thought of these emotions in a tercet and communicated my interpretation via a triptych. This blog post discusses how I sketched my way to that.

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The Rialto Bridge at Dawn.
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The Rialto Bridge at Dawn.

In 1588-1591, Venetian architect Antonio da Ponte combined the form and function, the grace and dignity, with strength and permanence to rebuild the beautiful Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal.

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LX Factory Lisbon, Portugal
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LX Factory Lisbon, Portugal

LX Factory in Lisbon Portugal. A weaving factory was established and blossomed because of industrialization; it fell to a factory fire in 1814; rose-again but with a new “English-style” fire-proof design in 1819; fell yet again as it went out of business in 1917; and stayed abandoned and forgotten, yet it rose again like phoenix from ashes into its current incarnation: the LX Factory in 2008/2012.

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