Found for Friendly Friday 2

Four days ago I posted part 1, here is the second part of objects that could or could not be art, depending on who you ask.

For a variety of reasons I like taking photos of discarded objects by the road here in Italy, which some would call trash, and have been doing it all my eight years living in Tuscany. There is one spot where they are most likely to be found.

Only recently I realised why they are gone by the next day: There is a free number you can call for a free towaway of your furniture or appliance that you wish to get rid of. And here I thought that certain people snatched them as soon as they appeared, like it happens with Gypsies in Slovenia.

But today’s gallery has other kinds of objects too. Some are indeed, or borderline, or enhanced art, a rug is undecided, and the hanging key shows you a safe place to park, or so I interpreted it and didn’t get the ticket. If you are ever in Porto Ercole – now you know.

Oh, and if you are curious where Flavia is off to for a year – she just posted from there.

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  Take this rug, for example. It could be simply the rug in this household that they put out to air, or it could be a well-thought through stylistic element. In Capalbio.

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  Also in Capalbio. Anybody who goes to such efforts to make everything just so, is not above carpet-hanging as an element of style.

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  Safe place to park in Porto Ercole. (Don’t count on it! Maybe I was just lucky!)

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  Just a wall, a lamp and a coat-of-arms, but all together like this they seem rather timeless. In Santa Severa.

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  In Tarquinia, a window that was and isn’t.

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  Also in Tarquinia. Barely legible but if you ask me – extremely artistic.

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  Right here, a more to-the-point object, to scare off the pigeons. Better than the spikes…

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  Scart art in the Giardino Viaggio di Ritorno in Tuscany. Turtle effect: achieved.

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  Also there with the artist present. Rodolfo Lacquaniti lives with his family on this property and creates the world around him.

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  Another display of found objects in Rodolfo’s garden.

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  And then there’s this, in Santa Severa castle. I was not convinced about the cultural and artistic merit of this.

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  Neither am I a fan of Jakov Brdar, no matter how greatly he is praised and how his works are all over Slovenia. I think the addition of this hat (NOT by the artist) saves this piece in Piran.

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  Also in Piran. She must have been naughty.

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  This table and bench in my parents’ garden in Piran were assembled by my ex.

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  Let’s move to Italy now and open my found object folder. This magpie was just in time.

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  I wouldn’t mind owning this chair.

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  This is the location from where many pieces of furniture disappear overnight.

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  This code was the clue. You call and they give you the number to display and only this person did it in such an obvious way that I finally got it. The machine on the right has nothing to do with it.

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  This one is to big to be towed away. On the way to Fiumicino.

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  And yet here I am still thinking of that rug…

For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by The Sandy Chronicles: Found objects

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Thursday Doors from mostly Croatia with a ditty:

  Some come with Uncle, don’t mind the mismatch,
  others with beer umbrellas and latch.
  Some with graffiti,
  and some with leaves,
  some sporting flowers come with a beast.
  Despite saying ‘Doggie’ some come with a cat
  and if one is really lucky
  some come with Dad.

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  2016: Three anecdotes about Maja the Bee

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  2016: Oh, Siena

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  2017: Bring your game, or why some think that Slovenians can’t have nice things: we break everything. But things change, sometimes with a bang such as we are witnessing now. (Read on. Spoiler: We won.)

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  2019: My magic, compilation. I asked mom to add her hand to this tiny window as a size comparison. She did this.

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