What a week it’s been… I think I say that every week : “Wow! what a rollercoaster ride”, but it’s true. I’m always amazed at how topsy-turvy life is and the world is. Or is it me? Who knows…
As a culmination of the week or maybe the month, I gave my presentation and official debut of the Italian Splendor collection at Denver Art Museum tonight and had the wonderful good fortune to meet and make the presentation with the Assistant Curator of the museum, Angelica Daneo. What a lovely woman and so very knowledgeable. I have studied much of Italian Art and the Renaissance but I still learned quite a bit more about the history of the specific cities in the DAM show and their artistic traditions. How I love that…learning so much more.
I thought as I drove home in the rain from the museum tonight that life is just like a tapestry… all woven together of this and that; this person and that, to make this ‘picture’ for a moment. The crazy endless rain, the nervous energy of presenting a new collection and the coming (I know it!) Springtime thrill is this new image and I am grateful to have this moment of experiencing it in its fullness: Life. Yes.
And so I came home all immersed in Italy and it’s multi-faceted culture to settled down with some steamed vegetables with parmesan cheese, olive oil and fresh garlic… poured a lovely glass of chilled soave and flipped on “Summertime” (c.1955 starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi) on netflix. I could (and have!) watch this film about a thousand times and still love it; especially when I want to see and feel Venice, which is *always*. (There are luminous colors and sounds that I can only find in Venice and when I’m so far away from it, I console myself with films). And am I imagining it? This soave smells remarkably like the Venus & Cupid perfume I presented tonight. How delightful…
Well, Buona Note, mi amici! (aka: so long, cookie~) 😉
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Oh, I will have to watch that movie. Katharine Hepburn was the best. And Venice, swooooon, I have a feeling I will be going there in a year. The weather is so crazy out here, I have never experienced anything like it. However, it is great for reflection.
Hi, Heather~ YES, you do have to watch “Summertime”. It’s wonderful and filmed in Venice in 1955, so you really get that “Dolce Vita” vibe, too. And I do hope you’ll get to Venice soon… if you haven’t been there you have to go. It’s a rare place on the planet where ART rules; it is every where you look…in every nook and cranny. It’s so breathtakingly beautiful. 🙂
Wow, I wish I could see that exhibit, that would be a dream come true! The perfumes sound amazing too, each every one.
Hi, Flora~ Oh the exhibit is REALLY wonderful… such beautiful paintings and some very obscure ones that are fascinating. I need to go back and see it again. SUCH colors and the icons? … breathtaking. I hope that you will love the perfumes; I did get to use some materials that I have has for quite some time that I hadn’t had the chance to really USE until now. I love it when projects like these help you stretch in ways you want to. 🙂
Just to say HI to lovely DSH 🙂
Hi, Bellatrix~ 🙂 I hope you’re having a lovely day!! oxo~ D