Via Cariona, Carrara
Janos' House, Torano
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Nine Months In Italy With Sculpture and
Drawing
By Gordon Punt, MFA
July 11, 1984
Arrival by Train in Carrara, Italy
The Train finally arrived in Carrara but
my ordeal was not at an end,
for by the time I had collected
all my luggage and opened the door to get out the train started
moving! I couldn't believe it and I was just about to throw
myself and luggage out anyway when someone yelled for me to
stop. So I ended up going to the next stop ten minutes away,
then quickly hopping on another train going back.
Going back was actually very special because this time I had
an excellence view of the white marble capped mountains I
would be working beneath. The sound of the train suddenly
sounded at first like a choir of a hundred voices, and then
a thousand voices cheering me on. I was very inspired and
tears wanted to flow from my eyes, but I held them back as
usual.
It was about eight o'clock, 20:00 European, when I quickly
got out of the train at Carrara, but it took me one hour to
figure out how to use the phone to call Janos (yanosh), my
tutor. I finally had to have a bar tender call the number
for me. At nine o'clock Janos said he would arrange to pick
me up at eleven o'clock with some friends and we all went
to his house by a marble quarry. It was kind of
like a movie. The night was warm and clear, and the moon lit
the stone steps leading up to his rustic old house. There
were more friends of his and sculptors waiting.
By the small outdoor table light, dim so not to attract flying
creatures, I met Janos' daughter Russlana, who was fifteen
years old. Then I met an Austrian, a Hungarian, the Dutchman
Antonius and his girlfriend Andrea, with her two year old
girl. We then had some fruit, bread and plenty of wine. I
was very tired and stale from traveling for two days from
Holland, so I went to sleep outside and got a glimpse of my
first firefly streaking through the night as I quickly dropped
off to sleep.
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