Coronadiary update – day 40

Guest contributor
Thursday 23 April 2020

Katia Nussbaum brings us up to date with her coronadiary on day 40 of lockdown on her San Polino estate in Montalcino.
Prologue: Captain’s log: stardate infinity
Sofia Bracamontes, my Mexican artist daughter-in-law, has sent me a painting she made four weeks into lockdown.
Like me, she is interested in barriers, limits and perceptions.
It's obviously ... a flame of water and mountains … an invisible rainbow
It’s like fire but doesn’t burn…
How tangible must sensations be before they are felt? At what point does colour/light appear from transparency?
I understand and love it: paradox, ambiguity or clarity.
Her medium is...
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