Laundry hanging out over the street, so much the italian cliche.... Maybe more reality than cliche, celebrated in paintings from Canaletto and Tintoretto on down through 19th century genre scenes, it just comes with the scenery.
While in Rome, I find that I do a lot of drawing; not just carry the sketch pad around sort of thing, though I do do that, but also working in larger scale formats. Laundry and drapery is ubiquitious here. I love looking at drapery on antique marble fragments - it still feels so fresh, hanging off two thousand year old toned bodies, or blown by a long ago invisible wind. I began doing drawings of them on the kitchen floor, and hanging them up on my clothesline.
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| Christopher Pelley "Roman Laundry" dimensions variable |
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