On Saturday, we went to Lucca to meet Ian & Anne, who had flown in to Bologna. After lunch we headed to Viareggio to see what the float-creators had been contemplating this year. The ton was busier than we've seen it, and the procession started later - at five o'clock - so there were some interesting light effects as the sun set, ad the floodlghts came on ...
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| Not all the crowd were as well-arrayed as this Mad Hatter and Alice |
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| AI Fears: the face cracks to show the robot within |
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| Plague doctors: this float suggests that our digital culture is the modern plague ... |
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| An anti-bullfighting float sports a magnificent animal worthy of the flower-power 60s |
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| "Home Sweet Home" - A relatively innocuous display of the characters from the Wizard of Oz ... |
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| ... chillingly reveals a Greta Thunberg cradling the vulnerable world |
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| Our favourite - two magnificent gigantic tigers - moving and roaring - personify the threat of mass extinction |
beautiful, as usual; and as usual I am impressed that you are able to decrypt the meaning of the symbols.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you made it out of Italy ok. I think your timing was perfect as a day later it might have been more difficult. Mind you, I can't think of a more beautiful place to be "trapped" than Barga..... We're thinking of you. Ian and Anne x
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