“Home is where you
feel comfortable”… Well if Cicero is right with that quote then I can
definitely consider Rome as home… It is now the third time that I am in this
beautiful city, but this time it was a little different: the last times I just
came here as a tourist, didn’t stay longer than a week or so. The city appeared
to me intimidating with all his history and all his sights, I didn’t really
know where to get start. This time I came prepared and not as a tourist; this time I actually become a citizen of this beautiful city. (At least I will
try my best to do so) The first week was kind of busy, we had classes every day, and I already feel
like we already learned so much, although we probably barely scratched the
surface…, especially since it is probably impossible to define what Rome is,
but exactly that is what makes it such an incredible place to study. I can already feel my improvement in sketching and in
Italian. In sketching we had some hard sketching sessions, hard because we’re
in Rome and there are a million vanishing points in every perspective. But you
grow with every challenge right? And so I already did I think.
Last Friday we sketched Piazza di Spagna (the "Spanish Steps) it's a very
challenging subject, I picked a spot on the steps and sketched for half an
hour. The result of that sketching session is this perspective, a little
traffic analysis and a pretty bad sunburn on my neck…
Today all of us went
to the Pantheon for Pentecost (some of us got up earlier some later...) but all
of us made it to the mass and the rose petals raining from the oculus. It was an
incredible experience, it was a grotesque atmosphere toward the end of the
mass, more and more people entered the Pantheon and it got very crowded,
suddenly thousands of cameras and iPhones were wondering around, and this was
still DURING there was a mass going on. Every once in a while a Italian
security said “no camera! NO CAMERA!!” but there were just to many and there
were just over-challenged… But it was definitely as I said earlier an amazing
experience, definitely worth getting up and not sleeping in.
Of course just like
everyone else that I just complained about also I took some pictures, but this
picture not even close does justice to the beauty of that event.
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