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| Rue Gouttefrais, St. Jaen-pla-de-corts |
Some people can't believe that my dear friend Currado Malaspina grew up in St. Jean-pla-de-corts. He doesn't have a trace of an accent. His small town roots are not something he advertises. He rarely goes back there to visit but when he does he makes it a point to make a little sketch of the street where he lived as a child.
Rue Gouttefrais does not have five-story buildings but in Currado's renderings he imagines a street that does. It is an expression of what the Italian philosopher Italo Schachi called "memoria ambiziosa" - the primal impulse that is at the root of lying ("l'impulso primordiale che è alla radice della menzogna").
I've known Currado for nearly 50 years and the one consistent attribute that he carries with him from youth to old age is his mendacity.
At least he leaves us with some pretty decent watercolors.
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