Once again I can't stop talking about how amazing Italy is! There are so many different cultural exchanges it is difficult to know where to begin. Whether from the art to the food, to the people, or just the atmosphere of breathing the Italian open air. It is fantastic! Yesterday I swam in the Mediterranean sea It was quite beautiful, and extensive. There is an intense feeling of fulfillment one receives when they can say that they have swam in Italy.


With all these experiences I have been having, they are feeding themselves into my art work here at La Romita School of Art. The interactions with the Italians has made me focus my artwork in a direction of conceptual boundaries and how one must overcome communication barriers in order to get what one wants. One thing that I notice is that a language may be foreign to you, but you may have more difficulty communicating a language that is not foreign than comprehending one that is. These observation that I interpret daily are working themselves into my art in order to try and transcend the language barriers, while communicating with visual imagery, instead of dialectic.

~Geoff Smith~