Ekaterina Margolis is an artist, writer, and painting instructor, participant in individual and group exhibitions in Europe, the USA, and Russia. She was born in 1973 in Moscow. She lives and works in Venice. This book is based on the author’s notes and watercolors created during an unusual spring of 2020—an epoch-making time for the whole world, and especially for Italy. Katya writes Venice in watercolor words. She bridges the past and the present, comforts and heals. After listening to her audiobook, you won’t doubt it—life is beautiful, and it will last for eternity.
Narine Abgaryan “I love you every day: when I go for bread, and when I take the dog out; and when you are truly the quietest, and when you spin in a whirlwind of carnivals and biennales. I love you to the touch. I love when plaster falls away beneath my fingertips, revealing tiny crystals of salt. I love you by taste. And today, emptied out and hiding from the unknown, quiet and subdued—I love you no less. You have survived not one, but dozens of quarantines. And you and I are together—the first.”