Piazzetta S. Maria, South
I returned to this place, this time I drew another side of the same square. When I was a child, 5y-old or less maybe, there was the atelier of a painter on the first floor of that building. There were a lot of framed paintings exposed on the balcony and on the stairs. I have this memory of child-myself walking by with my father during market day. I stopped looking to a painting. It was a Picasso-esque drawing of a human shape holding a chalk and the writing "1+1=3". I must have looked at it too much as the artist came and told me the story behind the work. He said it represented a son of a very rich person taking an exam at school. The father bribed the teacher to make his stupid son pass the test, so the teacher asked him what's 1 + 1 ? The guy still managed to answer "3". How on Earth I still remember this episode from 40 years ago??? Child-me thought that the painting was very ugly, but I didn't say. I told him I wanted to be a painter too once grew up. And look at me now, drawing the very same place, after all these years. Anyway, the atelier is no longer there, there is a café.