Firenze: The city that owns my brush and therefore my heart

5+ weeks later and here I am: the last night in my student apartment alone in the summer heat of Florence. This city owns my art making and without it, I simply don’t exist. 

A fellow Skidmore Alumni, Alex Salerno, and I won the awards for Best Student Artwork. She is headed to Parsons in the fall to start her MFA. I will be applying to schools for my MFA shortly after. We shared a large studio and became close over the course of our stay. I look forward to seeing her work develop in the future. We share the same Skidmore faculty mentor who was a visiting professor with us at SACI. All three of us celebrated art making tonight by eating pizza and drinking house red at a local place where English is still a foreign language. 

All oils from my time here…each about 24″x40″ on Fabriano. Last two are a few meters in width and height on canvas. 

“Carriage Horse”

“Hot Rod”

“Figure 1”

“Figure 2”

“Figure 3”

“Dancer 1”

“Dancer 2”

“Dancer 3”

“Leftover”

“After words”

“Ballerina 1”

“Ballerina 2” 

Analog photography and mixed media:

“Untitled” – silver gelatin fiber print 

“Wall Study” – liquid light emulsion on Fabriano canvas paper 

“Walls 2” – mixed media on Fabriano rag paper

There’s always more…I need to take better photographs. 

I board a plane in a few hours and head back to the pre 2016 US election chaos. God have mercy on our idiot American souls.