A set of low walls

The Time Team dig at Ca’ Di Bati moves on apace. Trovi Robinison arrived with his famous ground source radar. No sooner was it at work than they discovered a set of postwar steps. And a faux peasant postmodern labourer with a trowel fused in his hand.

He waxed on about the shift from elite bourgeois notions of landscape as contemplative but disembodied rapture to the notion of landscape as embodied in and expressed through in the lives of its quotidian creators. *

The tv crew broke off at this point and set the controls for Naples as news of Diego Armando Maradona’s death came through on social media.

The faux peasant was left as night fell discoursing passionately with himself as the tawny owls struck up their mournful nachtlieder.


* Note: The Shaping of Tuscany: Landscape and Society between Tradition and Modernity (2017) Dario Gaggio