Description
The Rio de San Francesco della Vigna is a very small canal in Venezia, the main island of Venice, Italy.
Yet another example of a smaller, side canal lined by colourful palazzi and small boats. I like to set aside the tourism aspects of Venice and to seek out the normal workday activities of its diminishing number of inhabitants. Of course, given the huge numbers of visitors seeking to be housed and fed, the daily services must attend to delivering and removing large quantities of food and waste behind the scenes.
While all of this frenzied activity, added to the tides and aqua alta, tend to degrade many of the canal side building materials, it is this weathering of surfaces which makes the Venetian landscape so interesting to me. I love the cracks, crevices, flaking plaster, peeling paint, mosses, and general discoloration of materials. Then, the several church towers (campanile) which lean dramatically due to subsidence of their insecure foundations.
I cannot imagine arriving in the lagoon on a giant cruise liner, being fed en masse in a restaurant, then shipped out to the floating tower block which dominates the skyline and creates an abrasive wake as it leaves.
Oils on canvas panel. 25.4 X 20.3 X 0.2 cm
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