Outside Fendi, a blackened tree grows straight through a fragment of carved stone — cornice or capital, hoisted mid-branch like the building gave the sculpture away and the tree caught it. Rome does this constantly: old stone finding a new plinth, no one asking permission. RR
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
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
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
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,