Around the Fourth of July, for nearly 20 years, I would get this wonderful sensation of my heart expanding and my pulse quickening because August was just right around the corner and soon the start of a new semester. I could not wait to get back to the classroom.
Same thing happened to me this year as we celebrated the 250th birthday of our nation… well… except the classroom has been replaced with a return to My Orvieto.
I have so many projects that need attention to completion… A screenplay and treatment, my first limited edition portfolio of silver prints from my newly completed darkroom at Casa Terese… stay tuned.
I play a bit of music. Guitar, mandolin, banjo. Okay… I own a banjo. What was it Mark Twain said? Oh, yes…
“The definition of a true gentleman is one who knows how to play the banjo yet does not.” I digress…
Took me three years of begging a most famous guitar maker to build me one of his “Small Jumbo” models. So precious is this guitar I ordered, in brilliant orange color, a hand made case from Calton Cases, with the name David Mello engraved on the nameplate. And the nameplate got me thinking.
I will sign my new “fotos” under that nom de plume, David Mello. They are not even a frontage road to the work I have made over the past fifty years. These go in a reverse direction. Maybe even entering parts unknown illegally. So…
I am here to give this new pseudonym a soft opening.
I leave you with “Wine Glass and Wall, Orvieto.”
FotoOil by David Mello.
