Visual notes to myself

This is a selection of photos that I have taken as visual notes to myself. I take pictures of colors, patterns, and compositions that I want to remember but don't have the opportunity to draw on the spot.

Florence - Museo Marino Marini

I've gone on a sort of museum spree while in Europe, even more than usual. One wonderful discovery has been the Museo Marino Marini in Florence, which happens to be a really cool building. The original structure is a beautifully austere Alberti church, with an added modern interior network of walkways and platforms of a sort, to provide many views of Marini's statues. I actually wasn't really familiar with his work before going to see it, now I have probably seen it from more angles than the original artist! In any case, he's an important Italian artist of the recent kind and the museum is entirely overlooked by many visitors to Florence. I was there on a saturday afternoon and it was deserted except for one other person.

Graffiti in Italy

spotted in venice...also seen but much more difficult to photograph (and you might not even notice them in the daylight): a series of rat silhouettes leading from Piazza San Marco to the train station. they are along the ground, painted one shade darker than the grey stone, so you will have to look carefully for them.