Following a tip from a friend, I came across another work by Clet Abraham: a Vitruvian Man on a no vehicles sign.
The 268-meter “Sovereign of the Seas” was launched for Royal Caribbean International in 1987, at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. In November 2008 the ship was transferred to the fleet of Pullmantur Cruises and renamed “Sovereign”.
In January 1988, at the time of her maiden voyage, she was the largest cruise ship in the world.
With a sign like this one, does somebody really believe that this area (the central Piazza Cavour) is under an effective video surveillance?
In Italian a dormer is called “abbaino”, with the accent on the i, a word that sounds strange even to us. The obvious etym would be “abbaiare” (to bark), but this is not the case. It does probably come from the old Genoese dialectal form abbaèn, which literally means a young abbot, but was often used for young friars. In fact, the slate cover of the dormers was similar to the grey of the young friars' frocks. Others say that it is a form of “abbadino”, which comes from “badare” (to watch), or from the French baie (an opening in a wall).
On the “Serenade of the Seas”: I am not even sure if these are some funnels of sorts, but I liked them anyway.
Considered that we have recently seen an urban farm, I feel able to declare that this leafy tree stump in “Via Vivoli” is an urban forest.
