The other tenant on the block
A pigeon lands on the marble street sign, feet planted between the R and the O, directly under a Dior window. Rome's actual population doesn't read the address plaques — it just uses them as furniture. RR
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The head (Palazzo Marignoli, Galleria Verticale)
This is a 3D-printed study model — a stack of topographic lines standing in for a Roman portrait head. It's part of Palazzo Marignoli's restoration archive for Marcus Aurelius's bronze equestrian monument, the one still on its plinth at the Capitoline two thousand years
A word that means two different things
In Russian, контрамарка means a free ticket — something a friend gets you into. In Italian, contromarca means something else completely: the stub they hand you at intermission so you can step outside and get back in. Same word, borrowed by two languages, doing two unrelated jobs. I've used
A runway laid over gravel
Pink carpet rolled out across a park path, ivy and bougainvillea for a backdrop instead of a runway wall, a jazz trio playing next to the models. Derrick Jones Studio works in upcycled fashion — clothes rebuilt from what already existed — staged here in gravel and old stone rather than a
The shelf doesn't take sides
Russian vodka next to Italian Campari next to Mexican tequila, all on the same steel shelf, none of them singled out. A bar doesn't ask where a bottle is from before it uses it — it just needs what the drink calls for. Whatever's happening between countries,