Firenze

 

20 inches tall

 

Firenze emerges from months of passing a figure on the streets of Florence—a Romanian man whose presence seemed to embody the city’s contrasts. Dressed in a modern down coat and polished Italian shoes, he stood at the intersection of refinement and hardship, of the city’s Renaissance grandeur and its contemporary realities.
Through him, Florence itself is refracted—not as an idealized past, but as a living city of contradictions.