SUGAR SNAP

Italy 2019.

I wrote once that after spending a few months in Italy I felt like I’d developed a severe case of “cultural gout”. Beauty and embellishment in this wondrous place is rich and plentiful, from art to churches, landscape to dinner plates. Its decadent and decorative point is driven into your soul with a gilded Renaissance sledgehammer. While I was there I kept an eye out for the cliche, I turned toward not away from my Italian dessert.