For this week’s Discover Challenge from WordPress we are asked by Erica to explore the artistic side of list-making.
“Using the list form as your foundation, turn it into something unexpectedly beautiful.”
This seems the perfect excuse for another dip into my prized Journal from our Italian travels in 1999, which you may remember accompanied the Italian series of paintings last year during my Studio 365 day challenge.
Writing the journal at the end of each day became a labor of love. Each list of the day’s activities took on a life of its own, and as I look back through it again today memories of those lovingly documented moments come flooding back, which explains why the journal became the subject of my post for another Discover Challenge in April: Memory…
…the surgical instruments designed by Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla in the Museo Galileo in Florence…
….meeting Alessandro Menghini in the medieval garden he had designed in Perugia, which he describes in his book Il Giardino Dello Spirito…
…and the welcome gelati break in the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, lying in the warm afternoon sun.
But perhaps the most important lists of all from our trip were to be found in the train timetable book from Italian Railways, which became our bible as we travelled across this most beautiful of countries.
Definitely time for a return visit I think…maybe next year 🙂
