Plaster Models

All Above Images (Author)

Venice excels in blackness and whiteness;

water brings commerce between them.

Italians excel in the use of black and white,

white stone and interior darkness.

Colour comes between,

comes out of them,

intensely yet gradually amassed,

like a gondola between water and sky.

Adrian Stokes, 'Venice: An Aspect of Art' (1945)