Over the next week you will find yourself, again, between a few things.  This time it may be of a different scale, time, and place.  Your next blog entry should answer the following:

What stands between a mountain and the sea?

Again, you are asked to provide a short text (150 words) and an image to demonstrate the text.

Now that your travels have taken you past the walls of Rome and into the countryside, your sense of urban scale may have shifted. Your next blog question is as follows:

What’s the difference between a big building and a small city?

Your response should be one part graphic and another part textual (roughly 150 words).

Buildings in Rome are full of stories…from the Latin inscriptions and Egyptian hieroglyphs in the many piazze, to the spolia hung in countless courtyards, to all of the events that they have witnessed, to all of the architectural expressions that we begin to translate, to all of the tour guides in so many languages explaining what all of these things “actually” mean. One begins to wonder how many stories a building can have? Your next blog entry asks that you answer the following question:

What did one wall say to another wall?

Your response should be a fictional account (roughly 150 words) of a conversation between two walls.  An image should caption the conversation.

Before you arrived, Rome may have appeared, as on a map, to be consistently flat.  The hills of Rome meant little.  Now that you have walked, a bit, through the city you are realizing that Rome is not flat, far from it in fact.  Much of the past week has been spent looking up with craned necks at the interior and exterior of domes.  For your next blog entry, I ask that you look down to consider the relationship between a building and the ground it sits within. As we know, the “ground” of Rome is not only hilly, but also constructed, removed, excavated, worn away, and added to. Your second blog question is as follows:
How does a building meet the ground?

Please include a short text (150 words) and a sectional representation of some sort (photo, collage, drawing, combination thereof).

You all have traveled from somewhere else to be here.  Some have been watching the sunrise over the Monte Cervino, others have been enjoying the last weeks of summer back home wherever that may be.  Now that you “here,” rather than “there,” we can begin to ask questions.  Your first blog question is as follows:

How do you know you are in Rome?

Please provide a 150 word comment and an image of some sort.