I have been very lucky in 3 times visiting Venice and discovering a different sort of city for although the canals are full of mechanised buses and taxis, the ocean still sings loudly too. Glittering blue with raucous raucous salt spangles silly sober self with gleeful mirth as I bob aboot on blue buoyant shallows of tranquil deep under the azure bright. I would love to spend time in Venice as a guest connected into the social fabric of the city. I do not like being merely a voyeur. I long to meet and talk with people who have elsewhere and different lives, and feel a welcomed guest not a voyeuristic tourist.
Art bounces out of experience.
I want to get in touch with the rhythms of the centuries. And yet I am not a traditionalist. I love Picasso and Beethoven and Shakespeare far too much. I cannot identify with consumerism. The themes I pursue are universal themes of emotion and reflection and spirit.