I think the six weeks I spent here working on my text has made a big difference. I needed a time-block where I could concentrate, think and not worry about everyday things to break a kind of impasse I was having with my text. Civitella has provided that and I am very...
A quote of my journal “Today, the 20th of October, while practicing my daily-8 to 10 klms’ walking ritual around the castle, down to Umbertide,( industrial zone, Tiber river, Abbazia Monte Corona, and more.. ) climbing up back to the castle, I felt as if I’m just...
Not much writing got done those first few days–there was the jet lag, which messed with my sleeping, but also the feeling of being in a constant dream-state. I now lived in a castle! I walked the halls at night in slippers, automatic lights noiselessly...
I came to Civitella wanting to start on a new body of work and I wasn’t exactly sure what that would be. All I knew was that I wanted to work on something using plaster. Imagery involving flying demons caught my attention and I ended up making a swarm of demons...
