This is my favorite sequence so far for “Drowning in Venice”. The woman in the story gets what appears to be bad news over the phone while walking through the flooded streets of Venice.

The background pattern is inspired by a Mariano Fortuny design. His museum in Venice is well worth a visit as he was a rare combination of artist, artisan, inventor, designer and successful businessman. He was also obviously quite the collector and a few artifacts have survived the years and populate an entire floor of his 15th century palazzo. Ink, watercolor and crayons on paper, 11″ x 17″.

These drawings form the opening sequence of “Drowning in Venice”. The first in the series represents the moon as it reaches its Perigee -the point at which it is the closest to earth, triggering larger tides and sometimes leading to floods in Venice, when winds and the Seiche (the oscillation of water along the minor axis of the Adriatic Sea) combine to amplify the high tide. Of course global warming, landfills and the sinking of the city into the lagoon do not help either.

Ink and watercolor on paper, 11″ x 17″ each. Click on the image to zoom

Inside back cover for “Drowning in Venice”. This is part of the facade of the famed St Mark’s Basilica on Piazza San Marco.

A complex drawing, further modified digitally to maximize the feeling of depth and the luminosity of the building.

Ink and watercolor on paper, 11″ x 17″.

Ballpoint doodles on paper.

Typeface by Douglas Vitkauskas (http://www.vtks.com.br/fonts.html).

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Untitled – part of Totem series.

Collage and ballpoint pen on cotton rag.

Man Ray’s “Faces” (1932) and detail from Charles Negre’s “Henri le Secq a Notre Dame” (1851).

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