when Sharon Olds said “If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.”
when Rachel Mckibbens said “It’s okay to wave good-bye to yourself in the mirror. To write, I don’t want anything. It’s okay to despise what you have inherited, to feel dead in a city of pulses. It’s okay to be the whale that never comes up for air, to love best the taste of your own blood.”
but then also when Dale Cooper said “I don’t know who I am. We search and search, and always end up looking into the same mirror, at the same reflection, hoping that we will find something different. Heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … heal … please.”
The original building designed by Venetian architect Francesco Lazzari, a tribute to neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova, completed in 1836. (images 2,4,5)
Renovations and an additional wing added by Carlo Scarpa, finished in 1957. (images 1,2,3)
Theatre-style incense burners my beloved. Easily my favorite kind of artifact. I weep for the fact that the vast majority of the ones found outside Teotihuacan were looted and ended up in the hands of private collectors.
