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Facing page: Karnak, Egypt

February 5, 2024

Small title page: detail, Le Due Torri Bologna, Italy

October 8, 1988

Title page: Along the Douro River

Portugal

September 24, 2019

Bologna, Italy

October 8, 1988

Le Due Torri

From the leaning tower

Pisa, Italy

October 9, 1988

Following spread, left: Cloister

Pisa, Italy

October 9, 1988

Following spread, right: Courtyard in San Gimignano, Italy.

October 10, 1988

A lone flutist was playing Albinoni’s adagio in the reverberant courtyard while I sketched. To this day I think of San Gimignano when I hear that haunting music.

Garden at I Tatti

Settignano, Italy

July 2, 1998

Facing page: Hazy view of Il Duomo

Florence, Italy

July 1, 1998

Villa le Balze

Fiesole, Italy

April 28, 2001

Travels in Tuscany reinforced my interest in landscape design, especially how it can define architectural space and dramatic sequences. The British landscape architect Cecil Pinsent was a master at this.

Facing page: View from Il Villino

Settignano, Italy

April 26, 2001

Following spread, left:

View from San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Italy

October 6, 2002

Following spread, right:

View from San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, Italy

June 19, 2001

Equestrian Statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio

Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Venice, Italy

June 15, 2001

Facing page, left:

Equestrian Statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio

Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Venice, Italy

October 19, 2017

Facing page, right:

Equestrian Statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio

Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Venice, Italy

October 19, 2002

Sinalunga, Italy

June 6, 2011

Facing page: Villa Bev

St. Barts

April 25, 2013

Locanda dell’ Amorosa

2020s

In early March of 2020, I was among the first wave of Americans to come down with a new virus that would soon shutter the world, and Jamie suffered a serious injury while skiing. We were quickly reminded of how unpredictable life is. We weren’t getting any younger, and we wouldn’t always be as mobile. We vowed to travel again as soon as possible, and to never take for granted the gift of being able to do so. As soon as we could, we went to Machu Picchu. The 15th-century Incan citadel high in the Peruvian mountains is a place where architecture and landscape seamlessly merge. Here, there is a song between the natural world and the humanmade; land, spirit, and building are harmonious.

Ziger|Snead now had two young partners who excelled, and this gave me more freedom. I explored Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Egypt. But even as I traveled farther afield, I felt a pull to the place that sparked my wanderlust. Jamie and I returned to France, spending a month in Paris. I revisited Versailles and returned to the museums I had loved so much in my youth. I sketched and saw each place anew, the perspective of time, and of age, affording fresh meaning. Being present in these moments, drawing as I have for more than five decades, I felt gratitude for having spent all these wondrous hours in communion with the world and this practice. So many moments—simple and fleeting, magical and profound, quiet, bustling, vibrant—have passed through my line of sight, through my pen, and onto these pages. Ink and paper, time and attention, combining to inform who I am today.

Abu Simbel

Egypt

February 9, 2024

Facing page:

Anubis Tutankhamun

Egyptian Museum

Cairo, Egypt

Feruary 3, 2024

Following spread, left:

Philae Temple Complex

Egypt

February 8, 2024

Following spread, right:

Step Pyramid of Djoser

Saqqarah Necropolis

Egypt

February 10, 2024