Rita Crane Photography: Venice / Shrine / wall / texture / prayer / Virgin Mary / Ave Maria
[Reposting .... and best on black!]
Here and there and everywhere in Venice as one walks through the ancient streets of this fascinating cultural treasure - now a World Heritage Site - one sees these little shrines. Amid cell phones ringing, appointments to make, responsibilities to take care of, daily challenges, the fast pace and extraordinary complexity of modern life...these precious shrines are like little oases of peace.
While making ones way through the complex maze that is Venice one comes around a corner and in a split second one is invited to enter another dimension: a gentle vast realm speaking silently to us through the ages in a symbolic language soaked with meaning. These special gestures that invoke the human heart of healing across time and space.....so nourishing!
[Note on the photo: I added a layer from Borealnz to the photo. It had been taken early on a winter morning. The Madonna was on a north wall, in the shade, so the light was slightly blue. I decided to add a layer with a soft glow and make the scene more true to how I felt looking at her. See the original shot below.]
Rita Crane Photography: Venice / Shrine / wall / texture / prayer / Virgin Mary / Ave Maria
[Reposting .... and best on black!]
Here and there and everywhere in Venice as one walks through the ancient streets of this fascinating cultural treasure - now a World Heritage Site - one sees these little shrines. Amid cell phones ringing, appointments to make, responsibilities to take care of, daily challenges, the fast pace and extraordinary complexity of modern life...these precious shrines are like little oases of peace.
While making ones way through the complex maze that is Venice one comes around a corner and in a split second one is invited to enter another dimension: a gentle vast realm speaking silently to us through the ages in a symbolic language soaked with meaning. These special gestures that invoke the human heart of healing across time and space.....so nourishing!
[Note on the photo: I added a layer from Borealnz to the photo. It had been taken early on a winter morning. The Madonna was on a north wall, in the shade, so the light was slightly blue. I decided to add a layer with a soft glow and make the scene more true to how I felt looking at her. See the original shot below.]