Day 19

Today I woke up and my eye was still swollen a bit, not as bad as yesterday morning though.

We walked as a group towards some national pavilions. On the way we found a church with some Tintoretto paintings inside. We also went outside this other cool church that had some pretty fantastic marbeling on it. It looked like the stone was split in half and the marbeling made an ink-blot type design.

A few people got pretty exhausted and went home. Matt kind of let us do our own thing after we looked at the churches together. We saw a lot of collatoral events, and some national pavilions like Iraq, and Bangladesh. I kind of lost the group after Bangladesh and decided I would go into Arsenale by myself. I needed to take some more photographs of individual artists for art history. I went through it really fast because I had already seen most of it, and I was getting really tired. It was hot today too, so the walk home was a little exhausting. I think everyone is just pooped after all the things we have seen and done.

Kenz and I outside the Days of Yi

Frogtopia! Oh geez...

Iraq pavilion

Bangladesh

Josh Smith in Arsenale

For dinner, I just made pasta and did some homework afterwards. I did some sketches too, a portrait of Aaron and an interior view of the apartment. We met up as a group around 9 p.m. and went to Campo San Stefano to do some night drawings. A lot of people didn't stay very long but I enjoyed it once I got in my groove. I started out frustrated as always though--I really need to stop doing that. We worked on black paper with white, grey, and black chalk. We came back around 10:30 p.m. and then I just went to bed. It was a productive night :)