I was in Venice (the one that’s sinking, in Italy) last week and came across this blow up Christmas tree. It seemed so incongruous with everything I’d seen in Italy – the land of duomos and shrines – that I had to snap it. If I’d seen it on Canal Street in New York I would not have given it another thought. It would have fit right in! Sometimes context is everything. But here it was on the Grand Canal…
