In her mid 30s, Maria was taken by the goddess who causes the soul to forget her life, on the way to her afterlife, at the river of the same name, Lethe. Stagliano’s bronze of them stands in the monumental cemetery of Turin and has done for nearly a century, where I photographed them in 2017. “Lethe takes Maria Ossola, 1920, after Stagliano” 1/30/19 26 x 39″ (67 x 100 cm)

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In her mid 30s, Maria was taken by the goddess who causes the soul to forget her life, on the way to her afterlife. Stagliano’s bronze of them stands in the monumental cemetery of Turin and has done for nearly a century, where I photographed them in 2017. “Lethe takes Maria Ossola, 1920, after Stagliano” 1/30/19 26 x 39″

“The sibyl rues the day, 1910, after Secchi” 26 x 39″ (67 x 100 cm) On the Dall’Ovo tomb in Milan’s monumental cemetery where I photographed them, they’re spaced farther apart, here their grief and apprehension are more dynamic. The sibyl fears that her prophecy may have not only predicted but caused the calamity.

Fui quod es, Eris quod sum: I was what you are, you will be what I am. “Memento mori, after Luigi Orengo, 1910” 18 x 27 inches (46 x 69 cm) 19 June 2018 Edition of 12 archival pigment prints on BFK Rives rag paper Orengo’s marble statues are on the Chiarella tomb in Staglieno cemetery, Genoa where I photographed them a couple of years ago. They’re on separate corners, the elder regarding the younger, amused at the young woman’s discovery of sensuality.

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