This collection, like many others that have preceded it, was born out of a walk through Rome: that morning of 5 December I had gone to pay the car insurance, and on my way back, perhaps because of some strange association with what I had gone to do, my eye proved more sensitive to a sense of the absurd and a vague surreal flavour than on other occasions.
So within a few steps I passed three lonely chairs behind the reflection of a shop window, a lemon making a fine display under the attack of a fire hose, two boys intent on conversing with Pinocchio and a gentleman sitting behind a rather disturbing statue of Superman.
If the City suddenly offers such opportunities to capture a certain vein of surreal glee, how can one turn them down? So I put together a few more pictures taken in the previous days, which I felt had a bearing on those taken that morning, in recounting some vaguely absurd aspect of the city and the things, people and animals that inhabit it, almost glimpsed out of the corner of my eye.
