Palatine Hill
Where the empire lingers along fractured arches
Bocche di verità
Where copious mouths evince the same fabrication
DSCF1309 Stradone dei Giardini, Vatican City, Vatican City | XF16-55mm f8.6 1/120s ISO500
DSCF1999 Via della Conciliazione, Municipio Roma I, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.9 1/100s ISO3200
DSCF2019 Castle of the Holy Angel, Lungotevere Vaticano, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.9 1/44s ISO3200
DSCF2406 Spanish Square, Municipio Roma I, Rome | XF16-55mm f8.0 1/97s ISO1000
As Nietzsche wrote, “We have art so that we shall not die of the truth.”
And in Rome, we have this stone mouth.
It does not judge, nor bite, nor speak.
Yet pilgrims of the camera gather,
hands outstretched not in reverence, but in performance.
What, then, does this say about us, about our hunger for spectacle over substance?
What made Bocche di verità special?
The fable,
the aesthetic,
or the film?
Everyone finds their own answer, mine carried out inside this gallery.