Venice, a Personal View Catharine Coleborne

Venice, a Personal View Catharine ColebornePoised in delicate, often hazardous balance with the liquid natural world the fabric of the man made city rises out of the water and is reflected in it. The earth of Venice, a tissue of alluvial silt, is upheld and given form by a vast subterranean endoskeleton of wooden pilings supporting buildings of splendor with their feet in the mud. The air of Venice carries both heat and swells from North Africa's deserts and envelops life like liquid gauze.

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